As for the Arab population already living in Israel, let's not forget that they are still treated as second class citizens, subject to a lot of discrimination, ranging from how they are portrayed in the public discourse, to an imbalance in the distribution of resources that leaves many Arab communities impoverished, and with limited access to education and healthcare.
That's an outright lie.
The resource distribution they receive is equal to all other cities out there, whether arab or not. The reason their cities are sub par with non arab ones is their own doing.
Their majors and local representatives allocate the funds elsewhere (corruption and whatnot) and more so, a lot of arabs do not actually pay tax so whatever funds they suppose to get back from their tax they do not receive.
And as far as their public appearance, it's their own doing.
You can barely see any Israeli-arabs supporting the co-existence with Israeli-Jews whereas the ones that wish to spread hate, just hope on a bus and go from one arab city to another and spread the hate there without interference from local folks.
Actually, that was the case until for the first time, a few weeks ago, they were stopped at Akko by local merchants who did not want the riots to cause Jewish tourists not to come visit.
Hopefully more Arab-Israelis will stand up for the country they live in.
Also, their political representative do
nothing for them at the Knesset. All they meddle with is the palestinians and not the people they should represent. Sad.
So basically, in your view, if they are discriminated against or effectively have worse living conditions than non-Arabs, it's all their own fault. Do you think your opinion could perhaps be a bit... biased? And you can argue that there is corruption and that accounts for some of the discrepancy, but to say they aren't effectively treated as second class citizens and afforded less resources directly by the central government is ridiculous. But don't take my word for it, go check the Human Rights Watch or the US State Department's country reports on human rights practices on Israel, for example. If you're into lighter reading, I believe Haaretz occasionally reports on this subject as well.
Still, and getting back to what I was saying (in the part you didn't quote), this is irrelevant to the point, as Israel doesn't want a one state solution to begin with, or for that matter a two state solution that would leave a viable Palestinian state.
Attacking the source doesn't disprove the accusations. Israel initially denied, but eventually had to admit to using white phosphorous rounds in Gaza in the 2008/2009 war, on densely populated areas, even ending up hitting a UN compound with them. In relation to depleted uranium and DIME rounds, it is widely believed that Israel used these types of weapons since at least 2006, and the cancer inducing effects of these types of ammunition have been studied for over a decade; Iraqi civilians, for example, are still suffering from these effects with the depleted uranium rounds used by the US.
Israel admitted using it according to the
international law. The UN concurred this as well.
And it wasb't dropped or used "on" densely populated areas (that implies that that's was its main intent).
It was used to mask soldiers in order to evacuate them.
You're
technically right in that white phosphorous rounds aren't illegal when not being used for their incendiary or toxic capabilities, but its "systematically reckless" use (Goldstone Report) on densely populated areas still had the predictable consequences on the civilian population: killing and wounding scores of civilians, property damage, the UN compound set on fire, destroying tons of humanitarian aid, and at least one hospital similarly being set on fire, forcing its evacuation. Further, in many cases which Human Rights Watch investigated its use, there were no Israeli forces nearby which would have required it be used, and further pointed out that there are far safer alternatives that can replace white phosphorus rounds.
And if you didn't like the article Chef Ramsay presented merely on account of its source, here's another from Haaretz, also commenting on Israel's likely use of DIME weapons in Gaza:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/norwegian-doctor-israel-used-new-type-of-weapon-in-gaza-1.268394.
