In an interview that appeared on Sunday in the British newspaper The Guardian, Zoabi said that if Israel continues to push its Arab citizens into a corner, it could ignite a third intifada.
While she rejected the idea that Israel’s Arab citizens are supporters of violence, Zoabi was quoted in The Guardian as saying: "We accepted a democratic, liberal state, we voted for the Knesset. But we are not just an internal issue – we are the litmus test of the whole problem. If Israel does not recognise this, conditions will deteriorate towards a third intifada."Zoabi recently came under heavy criticism following her participation in the Gaza aid flotilla. Zoabi was a passenger aboard the Mavi Marmara, a ship that carried members of the Turkish terrorist front group IHH, and did not carry humanitarian aid.
"It took us 40 years for us to admit that we were even Palestinians,” said Zoabi. “Another 15 years passed before we realised that the peace process started under Oslo had been a disaster. The Zionist project was to domesticate its Arab citizens as the hewers and drawers of water. But the carrot-and-stick approach failed, and now we see Israel is prepared to throw away its liberal side to control us. We were passive once and now we are becoming active about our national identity.
Their "national identity"? Arabs from surrounding countries do not make a new nation.
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