..Israeli Arabs: We Do Not Want to Live in Palestinian State

[Sweet_Caroline]

Well, well, well, now here's a turnup for the books - NOT.
And considering MK Tibi's reputation, I am surprised.

Israeli Arabs: We Do Not Want to Live in Palestinian State

by Khaled Abu Toameh
January 6, 2014 at 5:00 am

Renewed talk of land swaps between Israel and a future Palestinian state has left many Israeli Arabs worried about losing their status as citizens of Israel.

According to the Israeli daily Ma'ariv, Israel has proposed to the Americans transferring Israeli Arab communities to the Palestinian Authority as part of a land swap that would place Jewish settlements in the West Bank under Israeli sovereignty.

The proposal means that some 300,000 Israeli Arabs would be allowed to stay in their villages in the "triangle" area along the border with the West Bank. However, these citizens would find themselves living under the jurisdiction of a Palestinian state.

The new-old proposal has been strongly rejected by leaders of the Israeli Arabs, who expressed outrage over the idea.

It was hard this week to find even one Israeli Arab who publicly supported the proposal.

"This is an imaginary proposal that relates to the Arabs as if they were chess pieces that could be moved around according to the wish of the players," said Ahmed Tibi, an Arab member of the Knesset.

Another Arab Knesset member, Afu Ighbarriyeh, said, "Citizens of a democratic state are not tools or hostages in the hands of their government."

Both Tibi and Ighbarriyeh are from towns in the triangle area; Taybeh and Umm al-Fahm.

But what the Arab Knesset members are not saying openly is that they do not want to wake up in the morning and discover that they are citizens of a Palestinian state. It is much easier for them to accuse Israel of racism than to admit that they do not want to be part of a Palestinian state.

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Israeli Arabs: We Do Not Want to Live in Palestinian State

 

[montelatici]

Since there will never be a Palestinian state, isn't this all nonsense.

 

[toastman]

Since there will never be a Palestinian state, isn't this all nonsense.

So you're pro one state?

 

[RoccoR]

toastman, montelatici, et al,

This is a very sensitive and very uniquely domestic issue for the Israelis to solve.

Since there will never be a Palestinian state, isn't this all nonsense.

So you're pro one state?

(COMMENT)

The US should have nothing to do with and nothing to say (officially, unofficially, or otherwise) about what the Israeli people (all of them) decide on the matter.

(PERSONAL OPINION)

I just cannot see how, in good conscious, the Israel People could even consider abandoning anyone holding Israeli citizenship to the clutches of the Hostile Arab Palestinian. But that is just me. I find it extremely hard to believe that the Knesset would even entertain such an idea or that the entire idea of "transferring Israeli Arab communities to the Palestinian Authority" is not considered treason. But, again, that is just me.

Most Respectively,
R

 

[Phoenall]

Since there will never be a Palestinian state, isn't this all nonsense.

Not really, it just throws another spanner in the works for the Palestinians to sort out. See how they feel about hostile arab muslims living in their midst, and if they resort to their usual tactics of changing their minds............. PERMANANTLY

 

[proudveteran06]

Since there will never be a Palestinian state, isn't this all nonsense.

So you're pro one state?

I think what the poster is saying is that there will never be a " Palestinian state" because they refuse to " negotiate" I'll say it again; Any Pro Palestinian ; Just name ONE thing they contributed to the " peace process"

 

[proudveteran06]

toastman, montelatici, et al,

This is a very sensitive and very uniquely domestic issue for the Israelis to solve.

Since there will never be a Palestinian state, isn't this all nonsense.

So you're pro one state?

(COMMENT)

The US should have nothing to do with and nothing to say (officially, unofficially, or otherwise) about what the Israeli people (all of them) decide on the matter.

(PERSONAL OPINION)

I just cannot see how, in good conscious, the Israel People could even consider abandoning anyone holding Israeli citizenship to the clutches of the Hostile Arab Palestinian. But that is just me. I find it extremely hard to believe that the Knesset would even entertain such an idea or that the entire idea of "transferring Israeli Arab communities to the Palestinian Authority" is not considered treason. But, again, that is just me.

Most Respectively,
R

That is not their goal. Abbas made it quite clear he demands a NJA/ No ARAB ISRAELIS allowed but its not Israel's goal to be a No Arabs Allowed State

 

[MJB12741]

A Palestinian State would mean self determination where Palestinians would have to provide for themselves instead of sucking off of Israel to provide for them any longer. Let us all join together & pray Israel will never punish the Palestinians with such brutality as that.