The BBC is marveling that there are Israeli Arabs in the Israeli army:
The traditional view of the Arab-Israeli conflict is of Jews fighting Muslims. But that image does not always reflect the truth.
In fact, there are thousands of Muslim Bedouin who serve in the Israeli army, or IDF, and even bear arms against their fellow Muslims in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Well, yeah. Israelis are always mentioning that their country is a democracy, and how all of its citizens enjoy equal rights... let's hope BBC news presenters will remember to point this out this next time some charlatan defames Israel as an "apartheid state."
(By the by, Israeli Arabs in the IDF include not just Bedouins, but also Druze and other Muslim and Christian Arabs.)
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