The backlash over Arab-Israeli soccer player Anan Khalaili’s brief link to Inter Milan exposed a familiar reality: Palestinian citizens of Israel are expected by both Israelis and the Arab world to prove loyalties they can never fully satisfy
After it became known that Anan Khalaili, a player for Belgium’s Union Saint-Gilloise and the Israel national team, was being considered by Italy’s Inter Milan, an old and familiar debate was rekindled: Are the Palestinians of ’48, Israeli Arabs, Arabs of ’48 heroes or traitors?