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[quote=Anonymous]I posted this before - as much as I sometimes disagree with Tom Friedman, he summarized it perfectly in From Beirut to Jerusalem.

Israelis have a choice to make.  They can be a Jewish state, a democratic state and the state in the whole of Palestine/Eretz Israel.  But they can have only two out of three.

They can be Jewish and democratic within much smaller borders that exclude the Arab population.

They can be Jewish and in the whole of Palestine/Eretz Israel but it won't be democratic because that entails the subjugation and oppression of millions of Palestinians.

They can also be democratic and in the whole Palestine/Eretz Israel, but then it won't be Jewish, because millions of Arab citizens will change the character of the state.

These are hard choices.  Israeli public, on the whole, is not prepared to face them and make a stand. So they continue with business as usual, parroting the usual lines that "there is no partner for peace", "Palestinians just want to kill us" etc., because it keeps them from facing the hard choices.[/quote]

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