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by mef51 1861 days ago
I promise you Arab Israelis mostly identify as Palestinian

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel

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The article you link to doesn't claim anything like that.
It's the first sentence:

>> According to a 2017 survey by University of Haifa professor Sammy Smooha, 16% of the Arab population prefers the term "Israeli Arab", while the largest and fastest growing proportion prefers "Palestinian in Israel", and 17% prefer "Palestinian Arab"

Don’t know anything about the claim, but one relevant data point is that Lod, a famously mixed Arab and Jewish city in Israel currently has tensions bubbling over: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/border-police-officers-div...