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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli Arabs worry about PLO's statehood bid
2011-09-21
Politicians support the plan, but members of Israel's Arab community wonder how it will affect their future.
No, they're pretty confident their politicians, on both sides of the border, will screw them thoroughly. That's what Palestinian politicians do, after all.
Yet few would trade the Israeli government, however prejudiced, for the Palestinian Authority.

"Here, there is discrimination, but at least we can complain," said Mansour Abbas, a taxi driver from Jerusalem's Shuafat neighborhood. "Here, there is corruption, but at least you can take the prime minister to court! In Ramallah you could not even speak about it."

So most Israeli Arabs seem to reject a "two-state solution," which they fear would either leave them facing discrimination in Israel or unwillingly "transferred" to Palestine. Polls consistently show a strong majority supports a one-state outcome to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Even some Arab members of the Knesset, like Hanan Zoabi, have described a two-state solution as "impossible".

And many in Israel's Arab community worry that the PLO's bid for recognition makes that outcome less likely.
Indeed. Here, students, we see neatly displayed the special Arab cognitive dissonance at work. Living is better, fairer, safer, freer under Jewish rule, but still they demand a single Palestinian nation which their lives would be nasty, brutish and short...and Judenfrei.
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