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Suspected Jewish extremists cut down fruit trees belonging to Israeli-Palestinians overnight in an apparent revenge attack for Palestinian villagers detaining Jewish settlers, police said Friday.

The vandals left placards in the orchard reading "Regards from Esh Kodesh," the West Bank settlement outpost whose residents were assaulted and briefly detained on Tuesday when they entered the Palestinian village of Qusra, some wearing masks.

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In video: Israeli military accompanies settler attack

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That is certainly no way to integrate Israeli Arabs into the workforce

Prof. Sammy Smooha of Haifa University’s sociology department has been monitoring the positions of Arabs and Jews in Israel for nearly 40 years. When he asked in his latest annual opinion poll, from 2012, whether they’d be willing to live in a Palestinian state, 23% of a representative sample of Israel’s Arabs replied in the affirmative.

This shouldn’t come as any surprise. Anyone following Smooha’s surveys knows that the position held by Israeli Arabs towards the state has become more extreme over the years. It is doubtful the Jewish majority knows that 67% of the country’s Arabs believe Israel is a racist state, only 36% accept it as a Zionist state, only 47% believe it has the right to exist as a Jewish and democratic state, or that 53% support having a strong Muslim force in the Middle East to restrain Israel, and that 63% support the development of nuclear weapons by Iran.

Furthermore, 22% of Israel’s Arabs defined themselves strictly as Palestinians and another 45% as Palestinian Israelis. Only 32% defined themselves as the Jewish majority refers to them – Israeli Arabs.

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