Here's a article about the father of Kamilya Jubrin, the singer I linked to above. He's a maker of traditional instruments as well as a singer - and the article has some fascinating stuff about that, including a bit about a guitar with quarter tones that he has developed to enable it to play Arabic music properly.

The Jubrin's are from one of the few Arab villages in Galilee that weren't physically destroyed in the 1948 war, and they didn't go into exile. Arabs in Israel could be a key factor in developing different style of resistance. (But the general strike that ended in 13 of them being killed by Israeli police in October 2000 demonstrates that that is not going to happen easily.)