05-16-2004, 06:39 AM
Salaam Alaikum!
Rasha, please try to understand the current situation. Israel is perplexed at the present moment. They have the choice of either making the Palestinians citizens or annexing them to Jordan. The latter would violate the "Peace Process" (whatever that might be) while the former would force Israel to grant "all" Palestinians democratic rights, which is why Israel refers to Palestine as the "West Bank" and not "Israel.” Democratic rights would mean access into Israel at any given moment. It would mean that Palestinians would be able to vote, set up shop, and expand in Israel. Israel is no fool. Social ethnographers have predicted that the Arab population could multiply manifold giving the weight to Palestinian population, which would leave Israeli’s as the minority.
[As I said on another forum, if Israel in the 1967 war was "expanding" into its own territories, then that would make Palestine essentially Israel--therefore making the Palestinians citizens of Israel.]
---Ibn