Young Arab Woman Credits Israel for Her Success Amid Regional Tensions

An Israeli Arab woman, now an electrical engineer and a Stanford University graduate, openly praised Israel for providing her the means to succeed.

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Growing up in a Bedouin family, her life was set to be far different. She shares, “My mother was — and is — penniless and illiterate. She doesn’t know reading and writing, because her parents didn’t believe that women have the right to go to school; they should be on the fields and herd the sheep.”

Israel’s role in her life was crucial. She highlights that 25% of Israel’s population are Arabs, and over 20% are Muslims. They have “equal rights” and access to services like “welfare, education, health care — anything that a Jewish citizen would get.” This support was key to her achievements: “If not for Israel, I probably would be illiterate, penniless, herding sheep somewhere in the Galilee area of Israel.”

She addresses the accusations of apartheid and genocide against Israel as mismatched with reality. “They need to go and read the facts,” she says, particularly criticizing the misinformation she sees among students at elite universities.

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Verse of the Day

“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!”

Philippians 2:5-8