So long as the status quo remains intact, I wouldn't disagree. Inertia tends to govern.
But should it be deemed necessary, citizenship is one possibility in a Greater Israel which, of course, would exclude Gaza and the large Palestinian refugee population outside its borders. The Zionists would correctly see this as a means of relieving the growing international and Palestinian pressure on them to withdraw from the occupied territories and allow them to complete their program of a Jewish state encompassing the West Bank, what they call Judea and Samaria.
A separate Palestinian state, ie. a Bantustan under full Israeli suzerainty, is a second possibility.
Another wave of ethnic cleansing is a third if a threatening third intifada or another war with its neighbours erupts which provides Israel with both the necessity and pretext for engaging in such.
I'd be surprised if all of these options aren't regularly canvassed within the Israeli ruling class. As in all ruling classes (or any institution, for that matter), a decision is rarely if ever known in advance but is typically made in light of the perceived balance of forces and other relevant considerations.
We shouldn't presume to know better, one way or the other, which doesn't preclude us from speculating on possible outcomes.
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 7:31 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:
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>> > Though it should be noted that Sheizaf does not believe that they are really serious, and believes that so long as Israeli does not face significantly increased pressure, the choice of the Israeli political system will continue to be “maintain the status quo while trying to minimize its costs," and that if Israel ever faced enough pressure to force it to abandon the status quo, Israeli Jews would decisively choose "two state solution" over "one state solution that grants rights to Palestinians."
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>> Conceivably. But it’s also conceivable that granting the Palestinians formal citizenship would see their demands for equal rights channelled and absorbed into the Israeli electoral system, encouraging their gravitation towards parties like Balad and even Labour. As we know, granting democratic rights (to vote, to form unions) is a two edged sword: it opens the door to modest improvements within the system at the same time it saps more militant resistance outside of it. Ruling classes often choose to institutionalize disruptive and costly conflict in this way, and it may well underlie the thinking of that segment of the Zionist right cited by Sheizaf. I wouldn’t rule out any scenario.
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