Adam Raz on treatment of Israeli Arabs from 1948 to 1966

The origins of the brutality documented in all its ugliness last week – an Israeli soldier shooting an unarmed Palestinian who was trying to protect the electric generator he needs to function, amid the abject poverty of the South Hebron Hills – date back quite a few decades, to the period of military rule in Israel proper.  Testimony from recently declassified documents, together with historical records in archives, shed light on the acute violence that prevailed in the “state within a state” that Israel foisted upon extensive areas of the country where Arab citizens lived, from 1948 until 1966.

~ Adam Raz, "How Israel Tormented Arabs in Its First Decades – and Tried to Cover It Up," Haaretz, January 9, 2021