http://fresnozionism.org/archives/428 A pro-Israel voice from California's Central Valley Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:13:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://fresnozionism.org/archives/428#comment-5263 Shalom Freedman Fri, 25 May 2007 11:38:27 +0000 http://fresnozionism.org/archives/428#comment-5263 The radicalization or 'Palestinianization' of what were once called 'Israeli Arabs' is one of the greatest challenges facing the Jewish state in the future. For as Rosenthal correctly writes their demands are tantamount to calling for destruction of the Jewish state. Another way of saying this is that they do not accept their position as a minority. Twenty percent of the population are trying to dictate to eighty. Unfortunately the radicalization is not expressed in words alone. Israeli Arabs are a major factor in all controversies regarding the Temple Mount. Their relation to illegal building, tax- paying, or rather not- tax- paying are signs that in some sense they already do not belong to the State. Paradoxically the radicalization is happening as Arabs are more integrated into various aspects of Israeli economic life. There is no easy answer. I have sometimes thought the best way is that they become officially citizens of Jordan and that they have their voting rights and political expression there. By the way this is a problem no Israeli politician dares to address for fear of being called a racist. When Bibi tried to open his mouth a bit. He too was 'closed down'. The radicalization or ‘Palestinianization’ of what were once called ‘Israeli Arabs’ is one of the greatest challenges facing the Jewish state in the future.
For as Rosenthal correctly writes their demands are tantamount to calling for destruction of the Jewish state. Another way of saying this is that they do not accept their position as a minority. Twenty percent of the population are trying to dictate to eighty.
Unfortunately the radicalization is not expressed in words alone. Israeli Arabs are a major factor in all controversies regarding the Temple Mount. Their relation to illegal building, tax- paying, or rather not- tax- paying are signs that in some sense they already do not belong to the State.
Paradoxically the radicalization is happening as Arabs are more integrated into various aspects of Israeli economic life.
There is no easy answer.
I have sometimes thought the best way is that they become officially citizens of Jordan and that they have their voting rights and political expression there.
By the way this is a problem no Israeli politician dares to address for fear of being called a racist. When Bibi tried to open his mouth a bit. He too was ‘closed down’.

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