(Jerusalem Post) Ben Hartman - According to Over 62 percent of the Arab citizens of Israel believe Jews are a foreign imprint in the Middle East and are destined to be replaced by Palestinians, and a similar proportion believe that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state, according to the 2010 Arab-Jewish Relations Survey, compiled by Prof. Sami Smoocha in collaboration with the Jewish-Arab Center at the University of Haifa, scheduled for release on Sunday. Among Arabs, 71% said they blamed Jews for the hardships suffered by Palestinians during and after the "Nakba" in 1948. The percentage of Arabs taking part in "Nakba Day" commemorations rose from 12.9% in 2003 to 36.1% in 2010. In addition, 37.8% of Arabs said they didn't believe that millions of Jews had been the victims of a campaign of genocide waged by Nazi Germany. Among Jewish respondents, 68.1% expressed their opposition to public Nakba commemorations, and 66.8% said the Palestinians bore the brunt of the blame for the continued conflict between Jews and Arabs.
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