Opinion
Israel's Arabs are no longer afraid
Ayman Sikseck
Published: 09.10.15, 23:20
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1. If the Arab occupiers think they'll turn Israel into Syria,
(10.10.15)
they're dead wrong. Then...they WILL simply be dead....
2. Yes, there'll be "rage": a Jewish one and our dumb govt.
(10.10.15)
better count on it!
3. Our leaders are impotent vs.Gaza,Iran,Hezbollah,lone wolves,
(10.10.15)
wolf-packs- you name it. We just cannot do the simplest damn thing despite our military might & moral right!
4. Yes, but...
A Jerusalemite ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (10.10.15)
Not quite all so one-sided as presented here, but the basic truth of this Opinion piece cannot be denied.
5. arab rage
hasie   (10.10.15)
arab rage boils down to no jews in israel period. \it means no historic connection of jews to the land. \it means that all protests due to idf and police beating and discriminating against the poor arabs. \so when jews leave palestine for good, meaning tel aviv etc, then there will be peace for the jews. \\\\\\\tell that to the 7 million syrian arabs who have been displaced, massacred, and shipped out
6. B.S. Most Israeli Arabs think Israel's creation a wrong!
Chaim ,   Israel   (10.10.15)
This article is pure B.S. Most Israeli Arabs think the creation of Israel is a big, huge wrong. How would the author like to address that "wrong"?? The majority of Israeli Arabs are hostile. That is a fact.
7. Israeli Jews are not either
don   (10.10.15)
8. TO ISRAELI ARABS : PLEASE NOTE
TEL EM STRAIGHT ,   SAFED HONESTY   (10.10.15)
Israel does NOT need you.
9. AT FIRST I WAS AFRAID
GLORIOUS GAYNOR ,   SAFED HONESTY   (10.10.15)
I was petrified....
10. Disgusting propaganda article!!!
Eve   (10.10.15)
This is a BS propaganda article. The Israeli Arabs at times have more opportunities than the Israeli Jewish citizens. Every university has many many Arab students...they are doctors, lawyers, nurses, pharmacists and other professionals. 60% of all the nurses in Israel are Arabs and about 50%-60% is the same for pharmacists. The CEO of the Nahariya Hospital is a Muslim and the CEO of Tzfat hospital is a Druze. The head of Trauma medicine in Rambam and Hadassa are Arab doctors. The Israeli Arabs work for Gov't agencies and have wonderful lives. They don't spent 3 years of their lives in the IDF or perform civil service upon graduating HS like Israeli Jews need to do. They don't pay local taxes and some don't pay income tax. This article is a hate article and full of propaganda. If the Arabs don't like it they can leave for Syria, Yemen, or anyone of the 58 Muslim countries.
11. Who is this Ayman Sikseck?
Cameron ,   USA   (10.10.15)
He merits running into his own very special moment of Arab rage while trotting to the YNET office to type up yet more of that ass-kiss babble.
12. Ayman Siksek repeats the Arab battle cry from 1948
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (10.10.15)
Ytabah Al Yahoud or Slaughter the Jews This is what Arabs were shouting at the beginning of the War of Independence when 7 Arab countries invaded nascent Israel in order to divide it among themselves, not create another Arab entity. By the end of the war Arabs were running with the tail between the legs. It will be the same this time.
13. Ayman Siksek repeats the Arab battle cry from 1948
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (10.10.15)
Ytabah Al Yahood Slaughter the Jew
14. Very weak article
Dani ,   Tel Aviv   (10.10.15)
First you claim that Israeli Arabs started identifying more with Palestinians in 2000, then you complain that Israel started treated them as such. Make up your mind. The rest of the piece - the whining about second class citizenship - does not hold up either. I fully acknowledge that Israeli Arab's position is flawed, but it's still a million times better than the position of any of your 'brothers' who live under the rule of your fellow Arabs like the PA, let alone those unlucky enough to live under Hamas, Assad or ISIS. The remarkable thing is that you are fully aware of this - every survey shows a vast majority of Arabs at no circumstance wants to exchange their Israeli passport for a Palestinian one. So in stead of always focusing on the 'Palestinian struggle' and supporting people that clearly want to destroy the state and kill as much as possible of its Jewish inhabitants, acknowledge the simple fact that thanks to Israel, for all its flaws, you are able to live a life better, more comfortable and more free than any other Arabs in the middle east. As long as your politicians in the Knesset are busy defending Hamas and traveling the world urging a boycott of the very state they are representing, are you actually surprised nobody is willing to have a meaningful conversation with them on your position in society?
15. Ayman Sikseck is not a second class citizen
David Cohen   (10.10.15)
I work with Ayman Sikseck at i24News, Ayman is arab and he still earns more money and more privileges than me in the work place, I am jewish and he earns more than me all though we both work in the same position.
16. Victory at hand
graczek ,   Maryland, USA   (10.10.15)
The struggle will be carried on until the inevitable final victory for the Liberators of Palestine. I thought it might take several years, but now, it looks like Zionism and its illicit state will be gone by January 1, 2017 at the latest.
17. What is Ayman Sikseck's offer?
e-policy   (10.10.15)
1. To make peace with Israel? 2. To extend the losing policies of the Grand Mufti?
18. Israeli Arabs
Chafeeka   (10.10.15)
I am Israeli Arab who lives in Haifa and being a Christian I always felt the Israeli Arabs of Moslem faith though enjoy life in Israel, hold great jobs and raise nice families, get all the privileges equal to Jewish people here, their hatred towards us - Christians is very profound and they are the ones who are unhappy though their life style is very above board comfortable.. Ayman is correct in assuming that Moslem need to step up to the 21st century plate and follow what is in the here and now rather than bear hate and animosity towards a country that greats them as equals. Or, Ayman since you speak so well re Muslim modernization, be their champion and start your journey by first using the mosques since that's the primary hate education that is instilled. Or, YOU are welcome to leade the way for all muslims arabs living in israel who are disatisfied with their life and take them to Europe or another nice Middle Eastern moslem country do something Kennedy said: Dont ask what the country can do for you but what can you do for the country... shalom
19. Israel will remain forever.
Brad ,   USA   (10.10.15)
2017 will come and go, but Israel will always be. That is an unconditional promise given to Israel by the Biblical God, who actually exists and never lies. Israel's enemies will go also. All of them, no matter who they are, no matter how big and powerful they are, they will be toast. A lot of people may not like that, or believe that. OK, but the truth is true even when nobody likes it or believes it.
20. MESSAGE TO ISRAELI ARABS
TEL EM STRAIGHT ,   SAFED HONESTY   (10.10.15)
If living in Israel does not suit your tastes ,you know where the door is.
21. Israeli Arabs....
Oded ,   Usa   (10.10.15)
Should thank us every day and twice on Tuesdays for not expelling them to Syria,Iraq, Saudi Arabia and other sh- holes they all came from. These unfreatful bunch will have a rude reckoning one day soon....
22. Jewish State mistake
simon ,   kfar saba, Israel   (10.10.15)
The only mistake of the Jewish State was and is to allow non Jews to live in Eretz Yisroel! Deport them all now. Build secure borders! Close all stores on Shabbat, no public transportation on Shabbat and of course Yom Tov as well! No selling of Treif food anywhere in Israel! Teach Torah with positive attitude to all Jewish school children!
23. Arabs in Israel have all the rights, without the obligations
Jake   (10.10.15)
Arabs do not have serve in the army of any other kind of national service. Their municipalities go year after year without paying their fair share of municipal taxes and utility bills. And in return, they elect leaders who make common cause with Israel's enemies and now have become violent themselves. It's time for some accountability and reckoning.
24. Nice=weak in their eyes.
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25. I dedicate the next no. of shot down Arabs to you, Ayman
Cameron ,   USA   (10.10.15)
26. Double dip
Noname ,   Nocountry   (10.10.15)
This author looks like getting two pays for one work - one pay from this outlet, another from a wasabi propaganda machine
27. #16, Arab victory means piles of beheaded bodies of Arabs...
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (10.10.15)
...... and turning into desert dust any fertile land they step on.
28. side with the enemy
dave ,   tzfat israel   (10.10.15)
this newspaper fuels the conflict
29. Fearless Israei Arabs
Richard E Sherwin ,   Herzliya   (10.11.15)
1. obviously theyre not affraid of Israei police. Only of the Palestinians they supposedly identify wih, but wouldnt dare confront. Ditto the Palestinian rock and molotov throwers, let alone femaile knifists. Theyd be worse than dead if they tried mucking with PLO or Hamas police. or security. 2. it's been the PLO Fatah and Hamas whove consistently violated the Oslo Accords. Both of them are terrified of creating Palestinian State whose faiures and oppressions would become even more obvious to Israel, and perhaps even visible to the bungling western journalists and editors. Without UNRWA's dole and corruption, not even BDS could whitewash them. 3, The Palestinians and Israeli arabs know they only get newsworthy when burning tires and rioting in and against Israel. Do it at home, and they get even less attention than syrian refugees. 4. So stop the fake histories of their sufferins, please. Theyre violent when it's safe to be. Here. Now. And yes, theyre only afraid of their own local arab gangsters and corrupt leaders. No riots, no bombs, there.
30. Though I view myself as a supporter of the Right,...
Koose E Mack ,   NY US   (10.11.15)
Intifada and terrorism on the part of Israeli Arabs and Palestinians lead me to believe that Kahane, RIP, was right. These acts of terror can influence moderate Jews to swing to extremism. Perhaps we need more Price Tag Acts to convince the Arabs that death and violence, leads only to more death and violence. If that's what they want, let us grant them their wish!
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