Arabs living in Israel are second class citizens 

Arab citizens of Israel are Israelí citizens who have Arab origin. They are Arab because they are identified legally according to Israel law as Arabs. Many Arab citizens of Israel self-identify as Palestinian and mainly self-designate themselves as Palestinian citizens of Israel or Israeli Palestinians.

According to a 2017 survey, the largest and fastest growing proportion prefers "Palestinian in Israel" or even Palestinian Arab rejecting entirely the identity of "Israeli". Only 16% of the Arab population prefers the term "Israeli Arab. The language of most Arab citizens is the Levantine Arabic dialect, including Lebanese Arabic in the North, Palestinian Arabic en the center of the country  and Bedouin dialects across the Negev desert. A number of Palestinian Arabs have assimilated some Hebrew vocabulary and most Arab citizens of Israel are functionally bilingual, their second language being Modern Hebrew. Most Arab citizens are Muslim Sunnis, however, there is a significant Arab Christian minority from various denominations (approximately 200,000) and Druzes (who are arabic speakers) whose total population is around 150,000.

According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, the Arab population in 2013 was estimated at 1,658,000, representing 21% of the country's population. Presently this population is estimated at 1,800,000. 2 M in Jordan, 300,000 Lebanon, 200,000 Syria

Arab citizens of Israel mostly live in Arab-majority towns and cities; with eight of Israel's ten poorest cities being Arab. The vast majority attend separate schools to Jewish Israelis and Arab political parties have never joined a government coalition.

The Arabs living in East Jerusalem and the Druze in the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel in the Six-Day Wär of 1967 and later annexed, were offered Israeli citizenship, but most have refused, not wanting to recognize Israel's claim to sovereignty. They became permanent residents instead. 

Many Arab citizens of Israel have family ties to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. as well as to Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. (today there are about 3,00,000 Palestinian refugees in these three countries).  

Their rights are severely limited, both politically and culturally. They are a non-Jewish minority and as such are discriminated in most aspects of life. They are often treated in the same way as the Palestinians from the West Bank, with whom they tend to identify. 

For Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza the situation is much worse. They lack the right to move freely within the different areas of the country, work and study are also greatly restricted, and their land is constantly reduced in size due to the establishment of new Jewish "colonies".  

In summary, there are 6.5 million Ärabs (mostly self-identified as Palestinians) in Israel-Palestine with important population growth.

It is difficult to imagine how this demographic and political imbalance may continue into the future. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict will only become more critical with time. 

Globalization and easy access of information will make harder to repress and isolate nearly seven million people from the outside world. 

This contemporary apartheid that are enduring Palestinians in Israel will not last forever.