If Israel is a democracy then why are its 1.3 million Arabs treated as second-class citizens?

Question

Israel was explicitly founded as a Jewish state and citizenship is based on the principle of blood kinship.

Why does Israel behave in a neglectful and discriminatory manner towards its Arab population?

SO Amerian tax $$$ support their democracy, right?

Answer 1

This is a good question. Israel constantly imprisons Palestinians without formal charges... the Palestinians that are charged (even for petty crimes) and tried are never found innocent of the charges. The Israeli government does apply a seperate form of justice towards Palestinians.

Israel is a democracy for only Israelis within their territory... Its that simple.

Answer 2

Since in alot of ways this country (USA) has gone through times when some could be considered second class citizens or worse (Women - no right to vote till 1920, Blacks no voting till after Civil War and still problems till the 60's, Native Americans) maybe we should compare. Now yes Arabs are do not have all the rights of Jews in the country but first of all the Arabs who make up 20% of the population can vote and arabs make have 12 seats in the current Knesset (the Israelie Parliment) and 47 past members of the Knesset since it was put in place. Since Muslims and Jews have religion practices that impact laws, their are courts in Israel that are run by Muslim religious to address many issues especially family law. Finnaly in local governent their are local mayors and council member who are arabs. It sounds in no way like the second class citizenship we imposed for years on just the women of our country. So Arabs really are given a lot more. I think the real key is going to other coutries we have as allies and see how minority ethnic groups are treated in Japan, Australia and other countries and see that it doesn't reflect much difference than in Israel. And Israel is the only country now that has neighboring countires surrounding it of that same minority nationality that want to destroy it so I would say the Israelies acceptance of Arabs in their government structure shows that they are willing to live in peace if given the chance.
Another thing that the anti-semites in our forum here forget to remember is that Jerusalem and the Middle east are home to the most holiest sites of the three major religions descended from Abraham. Right after the 1948 birth of the Jewish State - Israel, the arabs took control of Jerusalem and destroyed ancient synagogs, converted jewish cemetries to latrines, and pilaged and burned jewish homes. The arab were also not respectful of Christian sites of worship like Nazareth and the Holy Seprachur. When Israel reclaimed the holy sites they have been completly respectful of both muslim and christian relgions sites. Just a few years ago during an Intifada muslims agains showed their disrepect for Jewish religion sites by bombarding Jewish worshipsers at the Wailing Wall with rocks. If Arabs were put in control of the land of Israel we would not be talking about Jews as second class citizens but as nothing but the dead.

Answer 3

Actually over 20 per cent of Israeli citizens are not Jewish. They have the same rights as Jewish people in Israel.

There are 22 Arab countries, most of them large and many of them wealthy due to possessing oil.

There is one tiny Jewish country, and she is not at all wealthy and has no oil and never will have.

Jewish people are entitled to their own homeland - how could anyone think differently when this one religious group has been expelled from practically every country they tried to make a home in?

And what about how the Arab countries all kicked out their Jewish communities? In Egypt and Iraq there were thriving, vibrant Jewish communities and they were expelled.

The term 'Palestinian' originally referred to Jews because they were the people in Palestine; they have lived there for almost four thousand years, continuously.

Israeli Arabs are treated better in Israel than Arabs in Muslim countries - that is FACT.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

They treat the Arabs like dogs. Its a disgrace to the whole planet. I can't think of any other country that has a minority rule that treats a majority so awful. If the U.S. wants to take down rogue regimes we should invade Israel above any other country.

Answer 6

The Arab populace are full citizens of Israel just like everyone else. If they would endeavor to live a peaceful productive life they may have happier lives

Answer 7

Israeli Arabs have more say in their government than Arabs in ANY other Arabic country.

And if we had a group of people in this country whose primary motivation is the destruction of the country and the death of everybody not exactly like them.. how much would we trust them?

Answer 8

Israel is not democracy nor a free country, Because they
are only democratic to Jewish people, the Israeli not the Arab. they have many issues I can understand why people dislike them as much as they do.

Answer 9

Don't believe everything you hear on the news. I just came back from a shopping trip from one of the most exclusive shopping centers in Israel in the city of Raannana and there were more Arab people there than Jews. They sit in our Parliment and there in one Minister. who is an Arab

Answer 10

We are a Democracy and we do not treat people as second classed citizens? That's funny.