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The fact that the Israeli government is actively trying to combat this mindset, rather than encouraging it and coddling it through policy and law basically defeats any purpose of second class citizenship.
My point is that 65 later, they are still only at this primitive stage. I submit that the efforts are half-assed and a token reaction to international pressure as well as criticism from their own internal left-wing, while hampered by a militant right-wing and general indifference.
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Israel would not annex the whole West Bank, but rather where it's settlements already are. Israeli annexation of those settlements is a possibility, but the whole West Bank is highly unlikely, which was addressed in that same two articles.
Well annexation of the settlements should be a non-starter, since most of the settlements are on prime real estate and at any rate take up and break up much of the already scarce land that would be needed for a Palestinian state.
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This assumes they're not served by another police station in the next town over
It's a town of 20,000 with no police and busted streets and per the article, overrun with street crime. Sorry, I don't buy the idea that the fact that it's an Israeli Arab town has nothing to do with that.
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The ones IN Israel, as in, the ones who weren't displaced, since they're likely the descendants of the ones who stayed.
Well no, it's not true that Israeli Arabs weren't displaced. Many just settled elsewhere within what would become Israel. Besides, many have family and relatives who ended up outside Israel, in the OT or in Egypt, Jordan, etc.
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but it might just be how Israel distributes it's government infrastructure.
Yeah, not to Arab communities, because Israel is a Jewish state. I was also going to post another Haaretz article about how welfare payments to Israeli Arabs are only 2/3rds as much as those to Jewish claimants, but felt I was beating a dead horse. Anyways, here it is:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/study-arabs ... s-1.216881 $1:
Of course, but for the most part, the water stealing and house bulldozing is occurring in the Palestinian territories, and not Israel proper. Big distinction.
I don't know that that's true and I'm not so sure the locals see the distinction. I'm sure Israeli Arabs figure they're better off than their OT brethren, but beyond that I'm sure they see their respective misfortunes as 2 sides of the same coin.
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Which, again, you can argue that the Israeli government didn't do enough in the past to cope with rising tensions between Israeli, non-Jewish Arabs and Israeli Jews. But this is also looking at it through hindsight, and through the relative stability that Israel is now facing, compared to the much more turbulent times it has faced a little over a decade ago.
But I question why Arab voter participation - including Arabs voting for Jewish parties - has declined so much? Sounds like there was a period of progress, probably started during the hippie days, then massive backslide.
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and the fortifications it built along the border
Just a clarification: They didn't build them along the border, the built the wall OVER the border, seizing the opportunity for another land-grab.
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Israeli government a decade ago would have changed the mindset of the Israeli people towards the Arab minority?
I think politicians like Netanyahu certainly played to prejudices and dialed up the rhetoric.
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many that have existed long before Israel's founding, are commonly homogenous.
It's not the fact that they are homogeneous, it's the fact that the racial/religous makeup is relevant to government decision makers that's odd.
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However, the writer of the article forgot that Iran often hangs homosexuals from cranes.
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