This book provides pioneering research on the rhetorical characteristics of Arab political discourse in Israel. It shows how such politicians, especially Arab Members of the Knesset (MKs), use a variety of lively rhetorical devices in order to convey their messages, to promote their ideological positions and to criticize the Israeli government's policies, which discriminate against Israeli Arabs and the Palestinian people and deprives them of their rights. It argues that the rhetorical devices used in this discourse possess unique features which contribute to focusing and structuring the...