90% Of Israeli Arabs Regard IDF Bombings Of Lebanon As War Crimes

Half Of Israeli Arabs Justify Hizbullah Kidnapping

By Ahiya Raved
Published: 03.18.07, 20:42 / Israel News
YnetNews

Almost 50 percent of Israeli Arabs justify Hizbullah's kidnapping of soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, and 90 percent regard the IDF bombings in Lebanon during the last war as war crimes.

Moreover, the vast majority of Israeli Arabs continues to express anti-Israeli views, showed a survey conducted by Haifa University's Dean of Social Studies Sammy Smooha:

Some 48 percent justify the launching of rockets at Israel by Hizbullah during the last war. Only 44 percent thought it was a war crime.

Among Israeli Arabs, 18.7 percent thought that Israel's engaging in war was warranted, compared to 69.7 percent of Jewish Israelis.

The only similarity between Jewish and Arab Israelis was that a large percentage on both sides (60 percent of Arabs and 63.6 percent among Jews) believed that the war caused them to doubt Israel's capabilities.