46% of Israeli teens: Revoke Arabs' rights

[Donald Ian Rankin]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4050228,00.html

46% of Israeli teens: Revoke Arabs' rights

Friedrich Ebert Foundation's Youth Study reveals Israel's teens think greatest threat to state is Jewish-Arab conflict, believe less in democratic values. As for who they trust most - IDF gets 93%

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In total, 1,600 teens from two age groups – 15-18 and 21-24 were interviewed.

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According to the data, the importance of democracy as a national goal among Israeli teens has dropped from second place in 1998 (26%) to third place in 2010 with just 14.3%. Meanwhile, the importance of "Jewishness" as a national goal has climbed from third place (18.1% in 1998) to first place in 2010 with 26%.

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Asked how they feel when they think of Arabs, 25% responded with "hate" and 12% responded with "fear".

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Analysis also revealed that the increase in feelings of fear and aversion towards Arabs manifests in political identity. Thus, 13 years ago only 48% of those interviewed defined themselves as right-wing whereas in 2010 the result was 62%.

While in 1998, 32% of the teens defined themselves as left-wing, in 2010 only 12% considered themselves as such.



(I'm only allowed four paragraphs, so I've picked four that have actual numbers in them; there's more background and context at the link)