The "Israeli" Racism: 50% of 1948 Palestinians are poors

summary: The "Israeli" National Insurance Foundation issued a report on the 2000 poverty averages revealing the huge social gaps suffered by the "Israeli" public.
The report indicates that the poverty average had increased among the "Israeli" society comparing with that of 1999. It is transpired that the gross income of about one million and two thousand individuals, i.e. about 305 thousand families did not exceed the hypothetical line of poverty in " Israel ", while the "Israeli" economy in 2000 and until the beginning of Palestinian uprising (Intifada) had characterized by big growth estimated 5.9%.‏
In the wake of releasing the report and in spite of the pressure exerted by the security situation on the Zionists, the "Israeli" analyses and voices of more than one political and information part, and for various reasons, had become louder in blaming the seriousness of the general social situation and warning of acute gaps in the monetary income of the "Israeli" families. The situation had become very danger to the extent Yossi Sarid, Head of the Meritz Zionist Party (opponent), had considered the social lacunas revealed by the report as more dangerous than Hizbullah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad!!‏
Returning to the information given by the report, it comes out that the truth differs from what most "Israeli" official`s analyses and comments had intended to. These comments are initially based on political and personal incentives just as Sarid`s one, for they tried to focus on the total result of the report ignoring the nature and nationality of the social sections inflicted by the poverty.‏
The report reveals that the Jewish families had witnessed decline in poverty rate from 15% in 1999 to less than 14 % in 2000, whereas the rate among the Arab families (except those of East Al-Quds) had increased from 40.6 % in 1999 to 43 % in 2000. This obviously means that the poverty index inflicts basically the 1948 Palestinians. That is why the poverty in the "Israeli" entity has national and racial meaning more than being social sense.‏
Despite of the range of severity, cruelty and destitution suffered by the Arab minority in the enemy`s entity, the report did not unveiled except only one side of the truth. Contemplating the report`s statistics along with another data propagated by a number of "Israeli" statistic centers, it appears evidently that the actual lacunas between Jews and Arabs are so acute and vast. The fourteen percentage of the Jewish poor families mentioned in the report is nearly tantamount to the percentage of Haridi families. And if we know that the Haridi families choose willingly to live in poor for they favor not to work and satisfy with what they collect from the religious institutes and governmental subsidies, it will become clear that the percentage among the Arab families rises to more than 50 %.‏
Returning to the Insurance Foundation`s report, it mentions the following:‏
- The poverty in " Israel " has national aspect, for the hiatus between Jews and Arabs is very wide. While the Jewish poor families are approximately not found, the percentage among the Arab families reaches to more than 50 %.‏
- All the reports and studies presented by the specialized centers and institutes that show obviously the range of sufferance of the Arab minority were not paid attention by the successive "Israeli" governments, but they had been invested in the media to mislead the Arab public opinion in " Israel ".‏
- Whatever the economical growth in " Israel " is high, it is not accompanied by fair distribution of the national production on the Arab minority. The growth rate in 2000 had reached to 5.9 % whereas the poverty rate among the Arab families had increased so much.‏
- In spite of the disseminated facts and in adoption of the report`s final result without studying its content, the public discussion over poverty and way of handling it continues among the Jewish population, ignoring completely the Arab section, simply because it is not existed in the "Israeli" political and social agenda.‏
These numbers and information unveil how it is rooted the racial policy practiced by the Zionists against the Arabs who are called as ""Israeli" nationals" in an illusive attempt to ascertain the democratic aspect of "Israel" in order to solicit the western world`s sympathy and assistance as "the only democratic oasis in the Middle East"!!‏
- Ghassan Dbouk, a Lebanese writer specialized in the "Israeli" affairs‏