The Ignored Aspects of Palestinian-Israeli Question: The Palestinians of Israel
Abstract
Immediately following the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948, its
people were subject to live in a divided land, compromising of a Palestinian
Majority of 67 per cent. However, following the creation of the state this
number was significantly reduced to a mere 16 per cent by military methods and
forced migration.
Subsequently, the Palestinian
population was reduced from about 950,000 to 150,000. The Palestinians in the
Israeli territory were immediately put under martial law. The principle’s
“ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants
irrespective of religion, race or sex” ", which was announced in the
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, which has never
applied to the Palestinian citizens of Israel.
The fact that Israel, which has
defended itself as the only democracy in the Middle East for decades, had not
recognized any rights granted to Palestinian minorities living within the state
of Israel.
Therefore could Israel be
considered a democracy when it neglects fundamental rights to the Palestinian
citizens of Israel?
A two state solution for
Israeli-Palestinian problems has been discussed internationally since its
partition, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 29
November 1947.However, while these discussions are under way, the presence and
position of 1.8 million Palestinian Israeli citizens who inhabit the state,
compromising roughly 20 percent of Israel’s total population continue to be
neglected.
Palestinians living in Israel
make up 12 percent of the total Palestinian population in the world, and any
solution which is ignoring them is not practically viable for either the State
of Israel or Palestinian Authorities.
This article aims to discuss the issues of
Palestinian citizens of Israel who have been ignored in the peace negotiation
process, the dilemmas of the two-state solution proposed by the United Nations
General Assembly, and furthermore the alternative possibility of the two nation
one state solution.
Keywords
Kaynakça
- Amara, Muhammad H. “Israeli Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority.” Middle East Review of International Affairs 4, no. 1, (2000): 38-44.
- As'ad, Ghanem. “The Palestinian Minority in Israel: The 'Challenge' of the Jewish State and Its Implications”, Third World Quarterly 21, no. 1, (2000) 87-104.
- Davis, Uri. Israel: An Apartheid State, London: Zed Press, 1987.
- Jiryis, Sabri. The Arabs in Israel. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1976.
- Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann. Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military. Stanford University Press, 2009.
- Karmi, Ghada. “The One-State Solution: An Alternative Vision for Israeli-Palestinian Peace.” Journal of Palestine Studies 40, no. 2 (2011): 62-76.
- Khalidi, Rashid. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
- Kimmerling, Baruch, Joel S Migdal. The Palestinian People: A History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Siyaset Bilimi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Ayşe Tekdal Fildiş
NAMIK KEMAL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ, ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLER BÖLÜMÜ
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Haziran 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
23 Temmuz 2017
Kabul Tarihi
6 Haziran 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 1970 Sayı: 1