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Simone Santini - from www.clarissa.it
- 15/12/2008
the fireworks to begin the campaign in Israel ahead of parliamentary elections to be held next February. The candidate of the centrist Kadima party, Tzipi Livni, former foreign minister of the government led by Ehud Olmert, who was forced to resign for legal problems, during a public meeting with the students reported that, when it is born a Palestinian state alongside of Israel's , "we say to the Palestinian citizens of Israel, what we call the Arabs of Israel: the solution to your aspirations National is located elsewhere. " Livni therefore envisages the creation of two ethnically pure states, or at least this will be the fate of Israel, where they now live as citizens formally in effect, almost a half million Arabs out of a population of about seven. They are the heirs of the Palestinians remained in Israel after the birth of the Jewish state in 1948. The transfer of this population in an Israeli Arab state of Palestine, is the way, according to Livni, to "preserve the democratic and Jewish character of Israel" with the birth, indeed, of "two distinct national entities." The demographic issue has always lived with a lot of concern in Tel Aviv (the birth rate is the only "bomb" in the hands of the Palestinians against the Israelis, "said Yasser Arafat) and hence treated as a matter of national security. The Arab population (by adding the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza, and the "Arabs of Israel") is overtaking the Jewish population and the trend is only likely to increase as the growth rate is much higher among Palestinians than the Jews, and Israel can not reach most of return flows from the rest of the world as in the first years after the founding of the state.
Two scholars, geographer Arnon Sofer and demographer Sergio Della Pergola (Israeli Italian origins) of the University of Jerusalem, Ariel Sharon's former adviser, have long produced an analysis that can be summarized as follows. Israel will have to solve a problem with three variables: democracy, the Jewishness, the territorial dimension. Only two of these variables may co-exist in Israel in the coming years.
may be a Jewish and democratic state, but he must be of small size. Will be democratic and great, but then no longer be Jewish. Finally, it may be Jewish and extended, but then there will be more democratic.
Livni, therefore, seems to have accepted the idea of \u200b\u200ba democratic and ethnically pure Israel allows its territorial limitation. But even in this case, position raises many perplexities. Ahmed Tibi, one of the leaders of the Arabs of Israel, Member of the Knesset, he wonders if Livni is the position of a line from the election campaign or a very deep conviction.
And in this case asks whether the candidate for prime minister is going to take away the citizenship over one million Arabs and reduce them "without political rights and without national identity," or plans to "transfer" in the territories by force a "Once you create a Palestinian state ?. The position of
Livni had the effect of creating confusion in the deployment of even greater candidate opponent, Benjamin Netanyahu, credited the victory to the polls election.
Netanyahu in fact it difficult to manage within his own party, Likud, the extremist forces. During the recent primary in the party for the choice of candidates, the more nationalist wing and religious leaders have often had the upper hand against the liberal or moderate conservatives.
Many of them have positions similar to those of Livni on the issue of the Jewishness of the state and advocate the ideology of a "Greater Israel", so that Netanyahu could be bypassed and pressure from the right. Especially since there are more than Likud religious parties that look even more extreme solutions for the Palestinians, like their mass exodus from all of Palestine to Jordan. Link
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