http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012103700.html

Electoral Ban on Arab Parties Lifted

Israel’s top court on Wednesday overruled a parliamentary panel that had barred two Arab parties from running in next month’s general elections.

The Central Elections Committee voted Jan. 12 to disqualify the parties, Balad and Ta’al, after hearing arguments that they identified with the Jewish state’s enemies and campaigned against Zionism.

Calling the ban undemocratic and racist, Arab lawmakers appealed to the High Court of Justice, which found in their favor but did not give details on its ruling.

Muslim and Christian Arabs make up about 20 percent of Israel’s 7.4 million citizens. There are 10 Arab lawmakers in the 120-seat parliament.

The Arabs may stay where they are.
However their patriotic feelings may be channeled through the three Palestinian states.
Sometimes people even move to other states (like in the US) to exercise their dreams.
As for Gaza just imagine all the $$ spent on the arms could be given to people, to the Gaza airport, to the Gaza seaport; no need to open any border crossings, Gaza may become a new Dubai

Israeli Arabs may find these three conduits (like Ahmed Tibi did) more than enough to assert themselves

Magnanimous of you to suggest that on their behalf. But I think they may have their own ideas on the subject much as it might inconvenience Israeli Jews. It might be that they’d prefer to live in the land where there fathers & mothers lived & gain full rights as citizens in that land rather than the other places you so kindly suggest that they move to.

This looks like a major crackdown typically of past democracies of whom they view as a “fifth column”. The major example that springs to mind is the total snuffing of the communist parties in the US and the jailing of Eugene Debs back in WW1. It does posit many questions as to what the true purpose of this is since that (a) the two Arab parties have been rather ineffectual in blocking any initiative employed by the three major Israeli parties (b) the Arab Knesset members are far from the ideologues that live in the Diaspora and surely the Knesset members know this and (c) it takes the mettle out of the “democracy” line that Israel imbues the world with over and over.

Has there been any evidence at all that links the Arab Knesset members to the parties Israel is supposedly fighting?

the valiant Hamas republic of Gaza

and some de-facto satrapy of Mr Abbas on the West Bank

Israeli Arabs may find these three conduits (like Ahmed Tibi did) more than enough to assert themselves

“It’s true we said we wouldn’t ban, but [Balad leader MK Jamal] Zahalka’s statement that he was in touch with Bishara led me to think that we must draw the line somewhere,” he said. “I’m making no apologies because I fight more than most in the Knesset for equal rights for Arabs. I know it won’t stand up in the Supreme Court, and rightly so, because there is no evidentiary basis for the [committee's] decision.”

So he openly admits to the ban being completely frivolous and yet voted for it to make a political point. AFAIK Azmi Bishara is still the head of Balad (and hasn’t been convicted of anything), so to censure Jamal Zahalka for being “in touch with Bishara” is pure populist electioneering.