[Globe and Mail-Canada] Orly Halpern - The overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis backed the war in Lebanon wholeheartedly, believing that Hizballah threatened the existence of the state, while Arab-Israelis largely opposed the war. "This war released the genie from the bottle," said Elie Rekhess, director of the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Co-operation at Tel Aviv University. "It gave expression to the identity dilemma of the Arabs in Israel." Many of the 180 or so Arab-Jewish co-existence groups in Israel have stopped activities since the war.
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