Israel is losing the world's sympathy because it has
allowed a growing Arab demographic time bomb to fester. This has led to charges
that millions of Arabs are disenfranchised, a practice which runs counter to
the accepted Western paradigm of government.
For a nation that prides itself as the "only
democracy in the Mideast," this demographic problem can no longer be
ignored.
[T]here is no chance of maintaining over time a situation that will be accepted
by the international community in which Israel continues to rule those millions
of people and does not allow them to vote for the Knesset.”
When will the day come when the
world will treat us as it treated F.W. de Klerk in South Africa? - Ehud Barak,
in Ha'aretz, as quoted by Daily
Kos (Emphasis theirs)
Israel has effective control over the area between the
Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Even Gaza's hostile autonomy exists
only at Israel's sufferance, while the Israeli navy blockades its seacoast,
albeit for security reasons.
The usual answer that Israel enfranchises its Arabs is
only partially accurate and ignores that roughly 3.5 Million Arabs (in Judea
and Samaria [the West Bank], and Gaza) have no representation in the Israeli
Knesset, which ultimately is the government that rules over them, their
borders, their population registry, their frontiers, their entrance and exit.
If these Arabs were added to Israel-Arabs, and the non-Jews in Israel, some
have argued that Jews are now a minority in the area.
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