Rising Hegemon
...there's very little Israel's right-wing government has done in the past year or so to suggest that it is willing to wean itself from its addiction to West Bank settlements, and the expansion of settlements bodes ill for the creation of a Palestinian state -- and the absence of Palestinian statehood means that Israel will one day soon confront this crucial question concerning its democratic nature: Will it grant West Bank Arabs the right to vote, or will it deny them the vote? If it grants them the vote, this will be the end of Israel as a Jewish state; if it denies them the vote in perpetuity, it will cease to be a democratic state.
Considering we are not allowed to criticize the actions of Israel's right-wing government I imagine we'll just continue to pretend. After all it's what we do with our government.
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Jeffery Goldberg would ask, "if".
Wake up and smell the coffee, Jeffrey.
Same thing will happen to Apartheid Israel as did Apartheid South Africa.
Imagine a Palestinian Nelson Mandela. You can blame Benny Net, Likud and the rest of the right wing racists for the current atrocities.
Democracy through gang rule is all Israel has now.vox
can you say goliath?
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