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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (147137)5/14/2002 12:30:33 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1584438
 
"ISRAELI ARABS FOR SHARON:
About 10 percent of Israel's Arab population have voted for right of
(Israel's) center parties for some time. But for this block Netanyahu
would have lost to Peres three election cycles ago.

They vote right for a variety of reasons. It may be that some of them
are libertarian/conservatives who prefer democratic life to
now-widespread Arab tyranny. Foisting such Western ideals onto
foreign voters is a bit odd. There are far more practical local reasons
for their voting.

First, not all Arabs are alike. Israel's Arabs include bedouins, who are
very different from the urban Arabs who identify as Palestinians.
Generalization by stereotype is unfortunate, but not always
inaccurate. The bedouins are mistreated by other Arabs throughout
the Arab world, e.g., Algeria. As a result, bedouins backed Israel in
1948 and have until recently gladly served in its armed forces. The
same can be said for another "Arab" group -- the indigenous Druze of
the Golan. These people are also mistreated by other Arab groups in
Syria and in other Arab countries. They too until recently have gladly
served in Israel's armed forces. People who have served in Israel's
army do not want to be branded traitors by finding that they now live
in the new Palestinian state. We know what happens to alleged
collaborators.

Second, many Arabs are Christian (or secular) and fear being reduced
to minority status in any Palestinian entity by their Islamic Arab
brothers. In public, they back the Arab cause, in the privacy of the
voting booth some vote Likud and for parties even further to the
right.

Third, vote buying through the political process (e.g., political pork)
and illegal vote buying occurs in Israel. It is not a perfect society.
How could it be?"

andrewsullivan.com
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