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From: arig@cvl.UUCP (Ari Gross)
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Subject: Re: Re: Apartheid on the West Bank
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> To get back to the original argument: were Israel to annex the West Bank,
> would that make the Palestinians Israeli citizens? If so, would they not
> have a majority of the vote (assuming they were to vote as a block)?
> Should Israel, then, limit their voting rights, thereby assuring it
> remains a Jewish state? If it does so, does that not violate the principles
> of democracy that Israel is founded on? 

> Marcel-Franck Simon		ihnp4!{mhuxr, hl3b5b}!mfs


   Israel should allow those Arabs that profess loyalty to the state
to take on citizenship, with all the priviliges and responsibilities
that accompany it. The right to vote AND the RESPONSIBILITY of
fighting in the army and paying taxes.  Arabs living in Israel proper
are allowed to be citizens of the state without serving in the army ;
this is certainly unfair to other Israelis . If Arabs in Israel,
including Judea and Samaria, feel their allegiance is to another
country let them go there -- many Jews living in Syria , Iran etc
would be grateful if they were allowed to leave and come to Israel.

   BTW, I argued this same point at the Arab Student's Club meeting
here at Columbia University recently -- if Arabs in Israel, including
Judea and Samaria, don't like the State of Israel let them call United
and move back to Jordan. I was told "but they don't want to leave" ---
I think the proper response to this is "they should be grateful they
are allowed to leave". If the Jews in New York City clamored for
self-determination and the right to make Borough Park and its environs
into an independent sovereign country would anyone take them seriously ?
Probably not ---  unless they had some oil-rich cousins ...........


                                 ari gross
                                 ari@columbia-20.arpa
                                 arig@cvl.arpa