Reply #38: What is happening now is in no small part do to the segrigation

[azurnoir]

of Palestinians from the rest of Israeli society

"The Arabs," as they were called then, manned our country's service sector for two decades after Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza in June 1967. But lacking civil or political rights, this underclass rebelled in December 1987. Termed the first intifada, the Palestinian uprising abruptly changed Israel's reality. Palestinian workers disappeared from sight, first the young ones, then the elders.
Born a few months after the outbreak of the first intifada, my daughter grew up in a very different environment than I did. She has never met a Palestinian from the West Bank or Gaza. Now 19, she has seen our Palestinian neighbors only on TV, and views them as aliens. She is much more familiar with American brand names and sitcom characters than with the people who live 15 miles east of her Tel Aviv home.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/11/26/two_state/index.html

That is what "allows" Israelis especially young Israelis to view Palestinians as subhuman, not that things were much better prior I will admit that Mr Benn's description of pre-Intifada Israeli-Palestinian relations reminded me of the pre-civil rights American south