... or marginalize Arab voters, it will become almost impossible to continue insisting that they are not a racist state. To discriminate or not to discriminate? Could there be any doubt which course they would take? For a long time now, the Israeli government has been holding up requests for unification of families formed by the marriage of a Palestinian and an Israeli citizen (i.e.- ... within "Israel proper" are largely segregated. They live in separate communities, with separate schools. This fact alone provides an opportunity for enormous discrimination in terms of government services,...

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... refuge, these two countries share similar histories in the Arab world. With Damascus being the longest continually inhabited city in the world and Beirut one of the cultural centers of the Middle East, Syrian government has long understood that the region of Lebanon has been ... Arab Deterrent Force, which included Syrian troops already present, moved in to help separate combatants. As an uneasy quiet settled over Beirut, security conditions in the south began to deteriorate."(5) This period is important because it heightened the Israeli military in Lebanon and the Syrians, who supported...

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