Cary, actually, there are about a million Arabs that enjoy more freedom than in any Arab country, these are Arab with Israeli citizenship. A very small minority of these Arabs are using this freedom to engage in sedition against the state (here in the US, we would not stand for such), but the majority, not only enjoy freedom, they enjoy the fruit of freedom, which is prosperity. The average standard of living of Israeli Arabs is way above the standard of living of the majority of all Arabs from the Atlantic ocean to the Euphrates. Until two years ago, the "Palestinian Arabs" were also enjoying prosperous times (and while their standard of living was creeping up it did not reach that of their bretherns, the Israeli Arabs, yet it was well above the average in Arab countries), but since their leadership engaged in the destruction of their own future state, by first refusing such a state, and then engaging in terror, that advantage, built through more than 20 years of efforts, has now completely been lost.
Zeev |
