Research Paper on:
Contemporary World Search for Arab Identity

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the Arab Gulf and eventually incorporates the entire world including the Western world. Although Arabs may be mostly affiliated with the Muslim religion, Arabs show a great deal of diversity  in their religions which include Christianity and Druze. Many Arabs have settled in Israel despite the centuries of fighting with the Jews and have maintained a national identity as Arab-Israelis.  In Western society, Arab-Americans feel their identity is based on the mixed influences from their country of origin and their communities in the U.S. Since the events of September 11th  however, Americans who previously show mild negative attitudes towards races other than their own have shown an outburst of negativism toward to Arab-Americans and other Muslim communities. While Arabs have  been discriminated throughout the world and throughout their history of immigration, there recent events have led many Arab-Americans to try and educate their fellow Americans, have turned inward to their  own community, or have fled the Western world. The Arab Israelis Before the War of Independence of 1948 approximately about 125,000 Arabs lived in Jaffa. After the war, all  but 3,000 Arabs left that area. During the time when the Arabs and Jews were at war, many lost their homes during the war and look back at the time  with mixed feelings. Many of the Arabs were displaced after the war after spending a lifetime building their identity in Jaffa. When asked, the Arabs from that time commented that  they felt they were Israeli, Arab and Palestinian (Inside, 1999). Throughout the world and especially in areas around the Middle East, this displacement of an ethnic group has left Arabs  often searching for their identity and finding a place of equal citizenship. Jewish Israelis have shown a positive attitude toward Arab Israelis when it comes to living and working together.