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Israel's Vote Thieves
The amendment to the Basic Law on Jerusalem is a manipulative move through which Israel is trying to rob Arab residents their right to vote in the city's municipal elections
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Jul. 26, 2017
Updated: Apr. 24, 2018
Annexationist right-wingers dream of a Greater Israel, but not as a state of all its citizens. They want sovereignty over the territories, but without annexing the Palestinians as equal citizens. These desires are contradictory. The “demographic threat” is actually a democratic threat: If the majority in the country is Palestinian, democracy will serve to put it in positions of power. In Jerusalem, the Arabs are nearing 40 percent of the population. Currently, Jerusalem’s Arabs boycott the municipal elections. But what will happen on the day they vote in droves and elect an Arab as mayor of Israel’s capital?
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