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By David Singer, published 31/10/2012Unifying the two banks of the Jordan could end the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Yuyutsu wrote;
There are currently 9 Arab MK's (not 17): perhaps you counted the 4 Druze members among them, but these mostly belong to Jewish/Zionist parties. Overall, Arab vote to the last Knesset was 53.4% compared with 64.7% overall, yet many of them traditionally cast blank papers as informal votes.
Dear Yuyutsu,
It is good that non-Jews have representation, but it is bad that the parties represent various religious and ethnic groups. Democracy rests in part on the ability of the voters to change their opinions as parties change their platforms. In Australia voters may vote Labor, Liberal, Green, National etc. and change their votes depending on the programs the various parties put forth. However, if we had parties based on the various sectarian divisions a Catholic is in general not going to vote for the Uniting Church party regardless of its program.
Yuyutsu wrote:
You also seem to overlook the fact that more than 90% of the West Bank was offered to the PLO in 2000 and 2008 and knocked back on each occasion.
Dear Yuyutsu,
We don’t know the details of the offer. However, if it was a genuine offer Arafat was probably afraid of his skin. If he had accepted the offer he could have been afraid of being assassinated as Rabin was by a Jewish fanatic and Sadat was by a Muslim fanatic. People who work for peace in the Middle East are risking their lives.