President’s Rivlin’s speech can be understood as a blunt voice for the tolerance of the Jews towards Arabs in a time of ugly oratory. In his speech we can confidently tell that the relationship between Arabs and the Jewish people is a moment of genuine crisis and the Jewish government has assumed overt obligation to break the existing violence that threatens the peace of Arabs living in Israel. ‘Innocence rests upon the shoulders of everyone in Israel’, this is the message president Rivlin is preaching. Both president Rivlin and The bill reveal genuine feeling of Arab discrimination particularly for those living within the boundaries of Israel (Smooha 2012). Comparing the two speeches, it is clear that a higher percentage of Arabs believe there is evident discrimination in Israel institution in president Rivlin’s speech than in The bill’s speech.
Adding to institutionalized discrimination, Arab’s living in Israel has also lived under the impression that the Israel society advocates for racism towards them. In the fact of racism, The bills speaks much of how the Israel Jewish society acts with much racism towards Arab citizens and Arab citizens in The bill believe in no moderate racism culture but a highly racist culture in Israeli.
Apart from general racism, in President Rivlin’s article Arab citizens feel they are discriminated on an economic, social, national and cultural level. Israeli governmental policies do no favour Arabs living in Israel in the event of a terror attack and this makes Arabs feel discriminated on a national level. In the same context of discrimination, we can also see that there is an interesting correlation between the tendencies of Arab citizens to blame Israeli government when it comes to higher education matters (Yonay, Yaish & Kraus 2014). The question on education and the one of terror attack has caused growing tensions between Arabs and Israel citizens.
Throughout the many years of research on the attitude of Arabs living in Israel, investigations have clearly painted an image of a tortured society that has a split identity between ‘Arabialization’ and ‘Israelization’. The question that arises after reading the speech from President Rivlin and The bill is ‘what is the government doing about the conflicting nature between Arabs and Israeli citizens’? From President Rivlin’s speech, we can tell the effort of Israeli government in maintaining peace between Israel citizens and Arab dwellers in Israel. In as much as the Israel society seems inaccessible in a form of a centripetal trajectory, President Rivlin and his government insists that Arabs and Jews should not be living in adversaries in a game that sounds zero-sum (The President 2015).
Israeli government attitude towards Arab citizens is one that is geared towards making sure that Israel does not become a ‘Jewish-fascist state’. This means that the Jewish government cares for the Arab minority and is willing to fight for their rights and make their stay in Israel as comfortable as possible. Jewish leaders as it is evident in The bill’s speech have formed a partnership where the prime minister of Israeli can approach Arabs living in Israel with an apology as a way to attain true equality (World Torah News 2017). The show of solidarity from both articles is one example of the approaches designed by Israel government to bring Arab dwellers to a state of equality. The bill is a stronger approach for Israel national state to protect Arabs coupled with state symbols, civil rights law and basic principles of equality.