Arabs and Israeli Attitudes

This article is reprinted, with the editors’ permission, from the English-language Kibbutz journal Shdemot (issue 4, 1975). A Hebrew version appeared in the early ’70s in the Israeli daily Davar. The author is a senior lecturer in Arabic literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.—Eds.

We propose here to examine some of the beliefs underlying the Arabs’ anti-Israel ideology, and to try and ascertain whether it is possible to find any...