Well, this is an unfortunate choice of words by Yoav Stern for today's Ha'aretz.com:
Israeli Arabs will distribute 20,000 booklets on the Nakba - the "catastrophe," what happened to the Palestinians after 1948 - outside of schools in Arab settlements throughout the country. A camera crew from the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television network will cover the handing out of the booklets tomorrow at 11 A.M...
So, Israel's Arab citizens live in "settlements", like Israelis live in settlements in the Occupied Territories?
Interesting equivalence there between non-Jewish Israeli citizens, who have lived on their own land from time immemorial but happen to find themselves currently living under a sectarian system of government based on Jewish privilege, and Israel's settlers in the Occupied Territories, who have immigrated onto land expropriated from its legal owners in defiance of the Geneva Conventions and whose legitimacy is unrecognized by any other nation on earth.
Presumably, the next logical step in this bizarre equivalence would be for Israel to remove these Arab obstacles to peace by transferring the Arab settlement blocs to the PA, or by hanging on to the settlements but expelling their inhabitants to somewhere considered suitable for people of their ethnic-religious ilk. How very Avigdor Lieberman.
I heard Ha'aretz had a new editor, I didn't realize it was him.
