Israel plans to double settlement in Golan Heights

[Beastly Boy]

28. The situation is complicated indeed. All the more reason not to rely on selectively picked quotes

from a single op-ed article by an assistant editor of a self described left-wing Israeli magazine. When you rely on a source like this, you ar4e unlikely to find answers to complicated questions, or any useful information, period.

It is fully expected that a left-wing journalist will rely, despite its glaring biases, on left wing rhetoric in her opinion piece, and engaging in partisan back and forth will not clarify the situation one bit. Venting on the pages of WP may be good therapy for the author, but it contributes precious little to clarifying a complicated situation. In a country that promotes free press, which Israel does, everyone is entitled to lay bare the biases of their opinions, and, if opportunity presents itself, publish them in WP.

Nothing in the article, nor in the law passed by the Knesset in 2018 that the author refers to, changes or challenges anything I stated in my post: Israeli Arabs DO vote in Israel, they are Israeli citizens, they are ethnically and culturally identical to the Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza, they remain in Israel and are subject to Israel's laws as any other Israeli citizens are, they are represented in Knesset, and they are currently part of the government ruling coalition.

These are the facts that the article you referred to do not address.