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2004-02-03 Middle East

Sharon considers placing some Arab-Israelis under PA control

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Posted by PlanetDan 2004-02-03 2:13:48 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This article just says so much!

Posted by Daniel King 2004-2-3 2:55:43 PM|| 2004-2-3 2:55:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Brilliant move, he's telling the Israel Arabs to choose a side.

Probably won't help diffuse the population bomb because I don't think they'll assimilate but it might stop the growing support among the Israeli Arabs for Arafat's mad regime.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-2-3 4:12:22 PM|| 2004-2-3 4:12:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I just can't stop grinning that Sharon is playing this move. I'm suprised Arafish hasn't said anything yet.

Posted by Charles 2004-2-3 4:17:43 PM|| 2004-2-3 4:17:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Diabolical. Sharon threatens to sell part of his population down the river.... Hmmmm.... Bet there might be an upswing in coversions. But like Nixon noted.... I don't believe the Arabs vote Likud. LOL.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-3 4:37:20 PM|| 2004-2-3 4:37:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry. The above sounds harsh. It's more of a BTW gentleman which side of the fence to you care for?

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-3 4:39:28 PM|| 2004-2-3 4:39:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 There has been discrimination against Israeli Arabs for a long time; it started long before the intifada began. Many social programs and many financial programs are predicated on the recipient being a military veteran there. Non-veterans have trouble getting loans for housing and for businesses. Since most Israeli Arabs are kept out of the army (and for good reason!), they can't fully participate in the economy. And that is dangerous to any society.

There have been a lot of hidden tensions within the Israeli Jewish community. The Ashkenazim and the Sephardim have fought in the past. The Russian immigrants of the 1970s and 1980s felt aggrieved that they were shunted off to poor towns with poor schools. And the Ethopian Jews, law-abiding, pleasant, loyalâthey received some truly mortal insults. It took a lot to drive them to riot, and they did once. There had been a blood drive, and many Ethopians reported to the hospitals to donate blood. Some of them then accidentally discovered that their blood was discarded unused because the doctors worried that they might have AIDS.

For Israel to be successful, it will need to find a way to have all its law-abiding citizens fully participate in the economy. The Palestinian murderers make it difficult (I knowâunderstatement!), but it's vital that the Israeli Arabs be integrated into the economy. I don't know if the Israeli government can do it, and that is a pity.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2004-2-3 4:59:24 PM|| 2004-2-3 4:59:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 but it's vital that the Israeli Arabs be integrated into the economy

Not sure I agree.

Saudi Arabia is a Muslim state.

Iran is a Muslim state.

Why can't Israel be a Jewish state?

Posted by PlanetDan 2004-2-3 5:20:54 PM|| 2004-2-3 5:20:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 This has been under discussion for a long time. Parts of the Galilie are 90-100% Arab. Among the most interesting arabs are the E. Jerusalemites who, in a secret and free election, would almost certainly vote to be Israelis but who don't dare say so.

Posted by mhw 2004-2-3 6:04:54 PM|| 2004-2-3 6:04:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 DenBeste wrote an interesting but looong discussion at: http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2004/01/UpagainsttheWall.shtml
regarding this issue

Posted by Dave 2004-2-3 7:46:51 PM|| 2004-2-3 7:46:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 DenBeste wrote an interesting but looong discussion
Dave, I think that sums up all of his posts! ;)

Posted by Anonymous 2004-2-3 8:34:40 PM|| 2004-2-3 8:34:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 As Bush said (paraphrasing liberally, of course) - "are with you with us or the terrorists?"

Posted by Frank G 2004-2-3 9:33:15 PM|| 2004-2-3 9:33:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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