Wow! For someone with as much "EddeA" as yourself, you really know so little about what you talk about. No disrespect, but you're really off on this issue which looks real bad when you start your post by bashing others about their lack of knowledge on the subject!!
So, according to you, 20% or so Israeli Arabs that currently live in Israel do so because they wanted to have a better life so they moved to Israel?!! Really? Is that what you think?
You can't immigrate to Israel unless you're Jewish, i.e. your mother is jewish or your wife is. Actually I'm not sure about that, it is the orthodox view of Judaism so one may be able to establish oneself as Jewish from father side if one claims to be a modern Jew rather than an orthodox, I'm not sure if that would be accepted though. Regardless, you have to prove, one way or another, your link to Judaism. So not every Lebanese or Arab who wants a better life can move to Israel.
It may occur to you that those Arabs are in fact the ones that were not thrown out on or prior to 1948 because they persevered or simply because Israel already had the demographics that it wanted.
Israeli Arabs, by law, are supposed to have full rights as citizens. In most cases they do. There are, however, very important discriminatory situations concerning Arab Israelis. I suggest you educate yourself on those. The life of an Arab Israeli still beats living in many other countries in Middle East, but the discrimination they undergo is quite shameful for a democracy like Israel. Main issues have to do with land and buildings. Basically, you cannot own most lands and properties in Israel if you're not Jewish. Arabs are limited to a small portion of land that they can sell to Arabs or Jews. Building construction is extremely cumbersome for Arabs. They have to go through permits for smallest of jobs which isn't the case for Jews.
Traditionally settled communities of Muslim Arabs comprise about 70% of the Arab population in Israel.
Muslims in Israel have the highest birthrate of any group: 4.0 children per woman, as opposed to 2.7 for Jewish Israelis, a natural reproduction rate of 3% compared to 1.5%.[49] Around 25% of the children in Israel today were born to Muslim parents. The Muslim population is mostly young: 42% of Muslims are children under the age of 15, compared with 26% of the Jewish population. According to forecasts, the Muslim population will grow to over 2,000,000 people, or 24-26% of the population within the next 15 years. They will also comprise 85% of the Arab population in Israeli in 2020 (up 3% from 2005).[50] See the section on Demographics for more on this issue.
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel[/ame]
Salaamet koo?
Easy son, easy, you are single handedly making yourself look foolish and moronic.
Na pessar jaan, chenin nist. Enghad age haarto poorte bijaa nakoni o bejaash tahghigh koni be in natijeh miresi ke in postet taghriban moftam nemiarze.
As you can read above, Moslem Arabs are very well allowed to get the citizenship without being of jewish background. In mozakhrafaat ro nemidoonam ki bekhorde to daade vali harki boode khodesham chizi baaresh naboode.
In Israel there not only living a huge load of moslem arabs with Israeli citizenship, there are also a significant number of christian arabs which alot of people dont even know about their existence.
Now back to the discrimination part: No one can deny that there is some discrimination here and there. Now no one can deny there is discrimination in Germany, England, Sweden, Austria, USA, Canada, Australian either. Son we are not coming from poshteh kooh, we are grown up in abroad, most of us do have a second citizenship aside from our iranian one and you and me exactly know that we are not always seen as equal members of the society we are living in. Thats the world, thats the problem immigrants have to get along with all around the world. Its not an israeli problem. Hamin ke man aslan baayad chenin chizi ro vaase to tozih bedam neshoon mide sathe daaneshe kheyli paain tar az in harfaast.
They have thrown out so many other arabs, what do you think made them be afraid of throwing out the rest of the arabs aswell? The problem is you are just not ready to see that this state -although based on questionable actions- started to realize that they have to win the good arabs long ago. They realized there is no future for anybody if they werent ready to integrate moslem arabs into their society.
I tell you this: Considering the deep rooted and old hatred between jews and moslems and considering the fact that israel has never felt secure and probably will never feel so, living in the middle of hundreds of millions of moslems who are just waiting for an opportunity to throw the jews into the sea, under such difficult circumstances, i say Israel is doing a honorable job integrating the arabs within its socity. Accepting 25% arabs (vast majority of them moslems) and give them the israeli passport is not a little thing. Its a huge effort. its like accepting enemies as one of yours right in the middle of a war. Its actually a brave act as they know exactly that not all those arabs will be commited to the israeli law and society, a good number of them will still have sympathies with likes of Hamas and Jihad deep in their hearts, some of them will betray Israel and Israel is still trying to integrate them by handing out the israeli citizenship.
Dafe dige khodeto por kon bad biaa baa man bahs kon. Age sabok vazni nayaa ghaatiye sangin vaznaa. Boro baa hamvaznaaye khodet kalanjaar boro.
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