The death of the Arab Israeli dream - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Mazal Mualem

Mazal Mualem

Feb 8, 2016

Israeli Meretz Party member Issawi Frej (center L) takes part in a visit of Al-Shuhada Street in the West Bank city of Hebron, Feb. 25, 2014. — HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images

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Police officers display seized firearms and ammunition for the media after a smuggling bust in Kaohsiung September 26, 2009. A haul of 181 guns and 22,685 rounds of ammunition were displayed for the media on Saturday as six suspects were arrested in what may be the largest arms smuggling bust ever in Taiwan, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said. CIB officials said the seized weapons are standard models manufactured in Italy, Germany, Israel and the U.S. Picture taken September 26, 2009. REUTERS/St

Crime, arms possession increase in Israeli Arab society

Shlomi Eldar

Jewish settlers scuffle with Israeli border police attempting to remove the Jewish outpost of Mitzpeh Yitzhar in the West Bank May 17, 2004. Israeli troops clashed on Monday with hundreds of Jewish settlers trying to prevent the dismantling of an unauthorised settlement outpost in the West Bank. - RTXMM3O

Former Israeli minister warns of violence by 'godless' settlers

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint Arab List, poses before the filming of a television campaign ad in Tel Aviv, March 8, 2015. A political sideshow for much of the past six decades, Israel's Arab minority is hoping to gain much-needed muscle after next week's parliamentary election, with four Arab parties uniting under one banner for the first time. Surveys show the Joint Arab List could even finish third in the vote and become a factor in the coalition-building that dominates Israeli politics, where no party ha

Arab Knesset leader: Don't call me 'a demographic problem'

Shlomi Eldar

Workers hold freshly printed campaign banners in Arabic that depict Isaac Herzog (L), who heads the centre-left Zionist Union alliance with former cabinet minister Tzipi Livni, and Zehava Galon (R), chair of the left-wing Meretz party, at a printing factory in the Arab village of Baqa al-Gharbiya in northern Israel March 2, 2015. Opinions polls show a tight race ahead of the March 17 election, campaigning for which has been dominated by economic issues like high living costs and workers wages. REUTERS/Ammar

Meretz chairwoman: Herzog will need us to form coalition

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics