The position of Arab Israelis on the events of October 7, 2023
Arab Israelis are originally Palestinian Arabs who were governed by the British Mandate until the UN Partition Plan of 1947. Following this UN resolution, a war broke out between the Jews and Arabs in the land. Arab countries intervened in the war in support of the Palestinians, but the Jews emerged victorious in the 1948 War and the State of Israel was declared as a Jewish-democratic state. The Arabs defined these events as 'Nakba’, which means catastrophe.