Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Are Israeli Settlements Legal? Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah vs. Commentary’s Jonathan Tobin [View all]shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)The problem for Israel is that sooner or later, they will lose the Europeans. The only reason they havent done so already is because Arabs and Muslims are politically toxic in today's Europe, and possibly to some extent because of lingering guilt about the holocaust.
Within a couple of generations, the Arabs in Europe will be accepted in the same way that all waves of migrants are eventually. They will eventually figure out how to lobby effectively, in the same way that US Jews have learned the same.
By that time, Israeli Arabs will constitute 30 to 35% of the Israeli population. Israel will either have to permit additional Arab housing to be built - which they havent done to date - or Arabs will increasingly move into Jewish areas, as is already the case in Nazareth already. Israel can either respond to that in either a progressive or reactionary fashion. The latter looks increasingly likely.