Question

I want to propose an interpretation of the surprising and/or “not surprising” phenomenon (each reader can choose the term that fits him) in which very many Israeli Arabs—what percentage? I have no idea—join their Palestinian brothers and initiate intolerable violence against the state and against Jews.
I should say in advance that I myself am not sure how correct my interpretation is, but here it is:
A central motive in this violence is not only nationalist or religious, but to a large extent also a reaction to the centralization of a modern state that does not fit with the conservative mentality of some Israeli Arabs. Similar to the alienation that conservative Muslim Arabs in European countries feel toward the central government and the “white man,” it seems to me that there is something similar here as well. True, the rhetoric of these criminals uses discourse “painted” in other colors—for example, religious ones—but beneath the surface a significant part of the anger and frustration is the result of the conservative person’s failure to cope with what he perceives as an “unnatural,” decadent, and threatening culture.
Examples and elaboration: criminal violence within the sector, clan-based social structure, the culture of criminal driving, and there is more. All these phenomena are not really connected to “Jews,” and they are a kind of protest against the idea that a “fictitious” social mechanism—promoted by modern values like democracy and individualism—can replace a tradition based on natural morality.