UPI - The once unthinkable idea of Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is becoming mainstream. The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, in its annual national security poll, finds 46 percent of Israel's Jewish voters supporting the transfer of Palestinians out of the West Bank, while 31 percent also want Israeli Arabs to join the transfer. When the same question was posed more subtly, 60 percent said they supported the idea of "encouraging" the Israeli Arabs to leave . . . And 72 percent of respondents said they opposed Israeli Arab political parties helping form Israeli governments - which could stop any future Labor government having a Knesset majority.
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