> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:04 PM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> First of all, you're living in, and I'm guessing a citizen of, one of the
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>> very many countries in the world forged through ethnic cleansing.
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> But not one in which all immigration and naturalization, not to mention a
> number of the rights of citizens, legally hinge on ethnicity.
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You're right, we're not one of the countries that do that. Only Israel and scores of other countries around the world do. There are some, like Chomsky, who say Israel should become a state of all its citizens rather than a Jewish state, a position that has some support in Israel (not enough). But that's not your position either.
>> Second, Israel's "ethnic purity" is somewhat dampened by the Arabs that
>> make up 15% of its citizens.
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> As I told Michael before, it's 20% now, but be that as it may, how many of
> them do you suppose Israel would hope to "land-swap" away in any final
> agreement?
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None of them - at least not in any of the settlements proposed by any Israeli government. That's a very minoritarian position in Israel supported by only a few people, like Avigdor Lieberman (before he entered the government).
> You sound like
> one of the Israeli government spokesmen
Yeah, I get that all the time.
SA