Arabs Fighting for Israel

Israel Today: What experience inspired you to encourage Israeli Arabs to defend the Jewish nation? Haddad: When a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Maxim restaurant in Haifa, not far from where I grew up, among the 21 dead were four Arabs. A month later I enlisted in the Israeli army (IDF). I understood that it is not because we are Jew or Arab, but that we are Israelis that they kill us. I knew that I needed to defend my country. What was it like serving as an Arab in the Israel army? I served in Golani…