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Source: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/199/oped/Jews_and_Arabs_together+.shtml
Jews among Arabs, Arabs among Jews
(Boston Globe) Jeff Jacoby - Israel's Cabinet voted 22-2 to bury a bill that would have barred Arab citizens from buying homes in some Galilee towns. If it was repugnant to propose that Arabs be kept from moving into certain Jewish towns, it is even more repugnant to demand that hundreds of thousands of Jews be ethnically ''cleansed'' from their homes and communities in Judea and Samaria. The claim that the settlements are illegal is bogus. Israel took the West Bank in self-defense in 1967, and nothing in international law prohibits Jews from moving back there: Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria since antiquity. If there is room in Israel for a million Arab citizens, there is surely room in Palestine for a few hundred thousand Jews.