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The central question of this article is why the minority problem has remained under control in Israel but has led to an internal war in Northern Ireland. This question is explored within the analytic frame of the notion of a plural society.

Unter Zugrundelegung des politikwissenschaftlichen Konzepts der "kritischen Wahl" wird dargelegt, daß es sich bei den israelischen Parlamentswahlen 1992 mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit nicht um "Normalwahlen", sondern um "kritische Wahlen", die definitionsgemäß einen politischen Wendepunkt markieren, gehandelt hat. Die Analyse des Wahlverhaltens der drei entscheidenden Wählergruppen - orientalische Juden, Immigranten aus der Sowjetunion und israelische Araber - deutet darauf hin, daß der Trend zugunsten der Laborregierung langfristig ist, sofern sie die Chance einer Friedensregelung im Palästinakonflikt nutzt. (DÜI-Hns)

Representative national surveys of Arab and Jewish populations and leaderships in Israel within the pre-1967 borders conducted in 1980 make it possible for the first time to examine in detail Arab-Jewish differences in attitudes toward the Israeli-Arab conflict. It was confirmed that Israel's Arabs as a whole reject the Israeli national consensus of opposing the Palestinians as a nation, withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders, recognition of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) as representative of the Palestinians, formation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, repeal of the annexation of East Jerusalem, and the right to repatriation of the Palestinian refugees. They equally object to the Rejection Front ideology which calls for the replacement of Israel by a democratic-secular state in all Palestine. They subscribe instead to the world operative consensus on these issues. In addition to the dissidence that the conflict engenders in Arabs, it reinforces their unequal status in Israeli society. On the other hand, the Arab minority has not as yet been a party to the Israeli-Arab conflict either as a fifth column, a bridge to peace, or a pressure group. The implications for peacemaking in the region are discussed.

An empirical counterpart was sought to a theoretical typology of the orientation of Arabs in Israel to their minority status in a Jewish-Zionist state. The indications were that such an orientation was complex & that the construction of unidimensional attitude scales would not suffice. A set of 60 opinion statements was used in a 5-step procedure in order to arrive at second-order unidimensionality. The procedures involved a principal factor analysis, Guttman scaling, principal component analysis, smallest space analysis, & summated ratings. A comparison between the components & the final scale of orientation is made. This type of part-whole strategy is useful when such conditions as the existence of "sets of opinion," available measurements of a large number of opinions that are diverse & consistent, & a fairly complex research problem are present. 2 Tables, 1 Figure. Modified HA.