Daniel Pipes' attack on Israeli Arabs is baseless and inflammatory
Pipes has written an aggressive and confused jumble of half-truths and misunderstandings about the Arabs citizens of Israel in an article published in the Washington Times. - Middle East expert Daniel Pipes was in Israel recently and subsequently published an article entitled “Israel’s Arabs, living a paradox” in the Washington Times. Pipes’s main point in the article is that as Israel overcomes “external threats,” the Arab citizens of Israel will become an “ever-greater concern” and will be the “ultimate obstacle to establishing the Jewish homeland…” (and I thought the Jewish homeland was established in 1948). He claims that the Arab citizens of Israel are a threat to the existence of the State and bases this claim on an unsubstantiated accusation that “Israeli Arabs have increasingly resorted to violence against their Jewish co-nationals.” This malicious statement is false and the facts are exactly the opposite. Based on all indicators, violence against Jews or other actions against the State by Arab citizens of Israel has decreased significantly in recent years.