It was not the emerging Jewish state that proved unable to tolerate Arabs, but the Arab and Muslim world that proved itself unable to tolerate Jews. If any form of “apartheid” existed in the region before or after the creation of the State of Israel, it was in those Arab Muslim countries that treated their Jewish populations as second-class citizens, constantly taxed and treated as inferior to their Muslim neighbors and living in endless fear of persecution and violence. By contrast, the Arabs of Israel have done exceptionally well in the past eight decades. Consider reporting by the left-wing
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