General Discussion

Just because someone will chime in with a half-truth..

About citizenship, the Arab population of Israel proper does have citizenship. They call themseles Palestinian Citizens of Israel.

But the catch is they don't have EQUAL citizenship to Jewish Israelis who are the only ones granted the right to self-determination.

The 1992 Basic Law of Human Dignity and Freedom (like a Bill of Rights) establishes Israel as a state of the "Jewish people". Not its citizens. So where do Palestinians fit in to a bill that touts HUMAN freedom and dignity? Where is THEIR state?

In addition, dozens of laws priviledge Jewish Israelis over Palestinians, who also get inferior state services. Palestinian kids do poorly in school because they receive vastly inferior education. (Compare that to Gaza, where literacy and post-secondary completion rates are sky high). There are as many as 45 pre-Israel, old Palestinian villages that receive no state services like water and electricity at all. The list of inequalities goes on and on.

To top it all off, most Israelis want their Palestinian "citizens " to skedaddle and be gone from the "state of the Jewish people". At some point, that is what will happen, "citizenship" or not.