In Israel, they live much better than their “brothers” in the Palestinian Authority or in most of the surrounding Arab countries, but a new study from Haifa University shows that half of Israeli Arabs justify Hizballah’s kidnapping of Israeli soldiers.

A Haifa University study showed that 49.7 percent of Israeli Arabs justify the kidnapping of soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev by Hizbullah.

The study also showed that 48.2 percent of Israeli Arabs justify the rockets launched by Hizbullah into Israel.

Let’s give them a state! Oh wait. They already have one.

UPDATE at 3/18/07 1:44:03 pm:

The Jerusalem Post has more info on the appalling results of this poll: 28% of Israel’s Arabs deny Holocaust.

More than a quarter of Israel’s Arab citizens believe the Holocaust never happened, and nearly two thirds of Israeli Jews avoid entering Arab towns, a poll by an Israeli university showed Sunday, demonstrating the poor state of relations between the two communities.

The poll, conducted by Sami Smoocha, a prominent sociologist at the University of Haifa, showed a wide gap of mistrust, anger and fear between Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens.

In its most dramatic finding, the poll showed that 28 percent of Israeli Arabs did not believe the Holocaust happened, and that among high school and college graduates the figure was even higher - 33 percent.

According to Smoocha’s analysis, radicals in the Arab world believe the Holocaust to be a political event, and many feel that by denying it they are expressing opposition to Israel.