4 of the 6 Palestinian prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison were captured last night in 2 locations. In both cases it was tip-offs from Arab citizens that led to their capture. Which will only fuel the debate over the conflicted identity of Israel’s Arab-Palestinian citizens>
As usual, the view of both the hard-right and hard-left is pretty similar. Both see Arab-Israelis as staunchly Palestinian and non-Israeli, while of course reality is so much more complex. Here’s a 2019 poll by @dahliasc showing that 46% choose to define themselves Arab-Israeli> 
If anything, it’s only getting more complex with nearly half of Arab-Israelis last year disagreeing with the Joint List position against Israel’s agreements with the UAE and Bahrain and the Arab-Israeli vote splitting between JL and Ra’am who were prepared to be in any coalition>
The argument that will now ensue over whether those who lead the police to the escapees were doing their civic duty as Israelis or betraying their Palestinian brothers will of course miss the entire point. Arab-Israelis are not devoid of agency nor are they monolithic.
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