Wednesday, December 30, 2009
This I Found To Be Very Interesting
Back in 2000, the Arab-Israeli newspaper, Kul Al-Arab, conducted a little research. They polled the Arab-Israeli citizens of the town, Umm el-Fahm, on the following: "If allowed, would you ever want your town to be incorporated into a Palestinian state?" Surprisingly (or not), 83% of the respondents (all of which, please remember, were Israeli Arabs) said that NO, they WOULDN'T want their town to be part of such a state..............................................................................................Hm, this means what, folks? Does it mean that these particular Israeli-Arabs are somehow masochoistic? Does it mean that they're smart, stupid? Seriously, what does it mean?
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It means they are smart but several Jewish-Israeli politicans are questioning the loyality of Arab-Israelis. I've read speculation, and I realize most speculation is crap, that if the Arab-Israelis are ever seriously alienated from the rest of the country Israel is done.
Shimon Peres and Abbas, if left alone, could probably come up with a just settlement in days. Unfortunately, there are others (on both sides) whose livelihood clearly rests on there never being one.
Might depend on how the question was phrased.Two state solution ? Could be they want freedom rather than a little bantustan.
The Newspaper was 50% Jewish owned at the time, prior to 2006 so the direction of the paper might have been less Arab-oriented than it is now.
So, they want it all, in other words.
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