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Why is Israel intensifying its policy of political oppression, discrimination and economic suffocation against the 1.2 million-strong Palestinian minority in Israel? Do they really constitute a strategic threat to the Jewish character of the state of Israel, as the ruling circles claim? How did the second Palestinian intifada in late September 2000 and the subsequent mass demonstrations by the Palestinian minority highlight the inferior status and role of this non-Jewish minority in Israel in the struggle against occupation and against the injustices perpetrated by the Israeli state, and in its struggle for justice, freedom and full equality and citizenship, irrespective of religion, nationality, ethnicity and sex? Is it still possible to speak of a solution to the Palestinian question without addressing the plight of the Palestinians in Israel? And, finally, what impact will the Arab revolutions have on the Palestinian cause and national and democratic struggle?
