But contrary to conventional wisdom, the Jewish state is one of the few where young Arabs are content
By: Ryan Jones – Israel Today; israeltoday.co.il
Israel as the great and intractable foe of the Arab world is a notion that’s crumbling before our eyes, in more ways than one.
The Jewish state was supposed to be a place where all an Arab could expect was discrimination and racial hatred. It’s an “apartheid” state, they told us. So why, then, is Israel one of the very few places in the Middle East from which young Arabs aren’t trying to escape?
Trying to escape
Every year since 2008, the Dubai-based research group ASDA’A BCW has conducted the “Arab Youth Survey.” And every year the numbers have been getting progressively worse.
The 2020 edition of the survey found that more young Arabs than ever before see no future for themselves in the Middle East. It’s a situation no doubt exacerbated by the coronavirus crisis, but equally driven by government corruption and sectarian violence, which combine to leave little, if any, economic hope.
Among Arabs aged 18-24, a full 42 percent across all the Middle East and North Africa want to emigrate, and 15 percent are taking steps to do so.
https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/survey-most-young-arabs-want-to-leave-middle-east/