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I liked the piece you shared and your accompanying commentary.
Is this quite true though? For decades many Palestinians worked as cheap labour in Israel before mass immigration displaced their role, a generation of Palestinians grew up in and out of Israeli jails and consequently learned how to speak Hebrew – many Palestinians are bilingual speaking both Arabic and Hebrew. Palestinians also follow Israeli politics quite closely and have repeatedly indicated in surveys that the democratic (at least for Israeli Jews) nature of the Israeli state is the one facet they admire and want a future Palestinian state to emulate.