A reader writes:
Beinart says, "I'm not even asking [Israel] to allow full, equal citizenship to Arab Israelis, since that would require Israel no longer being a Jewish state….What I am asking is that Israel not do things that foreclose the possibility of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, because if it is does that it will become–and I'm quoting Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak here–an 'apartheid state.'"
Does he really not see that refusing to grant full, equal citizenship to an ethnic minority will itself make Israel an apartheid (or at least a Jim Crow) state? Is his view of a reasonable, compromise position seriously that Israel should get out of the territories but then relegate a large and growing segment of its own citizenry to second-class status, based on ethnic origins?
Wow.
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