On the Rights of the Arab Minority in Israel

Resumen detallado

In 1968, Fatah movement put forward the idea of a single democratic state for Israel's Jews and Arabs, in which citizens would enjoy equal rights regardless of religion and…

In 1968, Fatah movement put forward the idea of a single democratic state for Israel's Jews and Arabs, in which citizens would enjoy equal rights regardless of religion and language. In 1969, at the fifth and sixth sessions of the Palestine National Council, two ideas were adopted: a democratic society of Muslims, Christians, and Jews, and a democratic state that does not discriminate on the basis of religion or…

Thirty years later, building on his critique of the Oslo Accords, Edward Said published an essay stressing the priority of the two peoples living together in justice and equality rather than being separated, and of grounding rights on citizenship, without the Palestinians giving up their identity or the Jews their own collective life.

Now, following the recent elections and the increase in Arab turnout, popular mobilizations and demonstrations have broken out, some of them…

Inicio del artículo, extracto de Asharq Al-Awsat. Para leer el resto, abra el artículo en el sitio del medio.