I think allowing a million Arabs Israeli citizenship and/or permanent residency is mostly a one-sided token action, you know? It's not a token action Arabs gave Jews back in the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, during which also a million Jews who'd been living in Arab countries for millennia were harassed and persecuted into leaving. Nor is it a token action the Arab Palestinians gave the Israeli settlers in Gaza who were forced to evacuate by the Israeli Defense Force as a condition for peace. Nor, for that matter, is it a token action they're going to give the Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. There's no moral reason why Israel should allow all its Arabs to stay, but I don't support their deportation, because that kind of brazen human rights abuse is something Arabs do, not something Israelis should do. However, I do support the deportation of Arab Israelis who are or are supporters of extremists, just as they deport certain people in the West.
2007-03-28
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