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More Equality Than in Europe
(Ha'aretz) Amnon Rubinstein - The gap between the rich and relatively advanced State of Israel and the lagging Arab world has much increased and is liable to be another obstacle in the future of relationships between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East. In Israel itself, however, despite the events of the last two years, equality between Jews and Muslims has grown in many aspects. In rich and developed France, the infant mortality rates among Arabs there are not only much higher than in Israel, but the gap between the minority and the majority is considerably larger than in "racist Israel." Higher gaps in infant mortality rates between majorities and minorities - even when there is no national conflict between them - are evident even in the richest of countries such as Switzerland (comparing Swiss and Turks), Britain (English and Pakistanis), and the U.S. (whites and blacks).