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Israel at 70
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A look at Israel at 70 by the Economist magazine shows a country that has combined early achievements of socialist governments such as free health care system and good education system with the addition of 1 million immigrants from the collapsing Soviet Union, to build a highly trained technically skilled workforce and international companies.
It says the Israeli Arabs are still poor and unable to integrate. With ultra Orthodox Jews they make up 30% of the population, and many of them who do not work. Infrastructure has suffered from lack of investment and public transport is in poor condition. About 4.5 million Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza remain a continuous source of tension with no settlement in sight. The shift of the capital to Jerusalem is recognized by the U.S. Trump administration, a win for Israel, but leaving the divisive politics of Mr. Netanyahu in place. So that with the growing economy, there are social problems and political division which need to be addressed as much as the economy. A problem left for another administration, another leader from possibly a revived Labor party and another day.
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The Obama White House says following the election victory of Netanyahu that the White House is free to support a two state resolution at the UN. The U.S. Congress has voted unanimously for a two state solution giving the White House support for its new position. To get his own right wing supporters to the polls Netanyahu said before the election that he did not support a Palestinian state. In a speech in 2009 at Bar Ilan University Netanyahu had supported a two state solution. The sudden surge for Netanyahu days prior to the vote is attributed to this move. Netanyahu tried to retract his statement as expected in an interview with Andrea Mitchell of NBC News, saying that under the current conditions with terrorism in the Middle East and failure of the Palestinian Authority to abandon its alliance with Hamas no peace was possible making a two state solution inachievable, but he still supported the idea in the right conditions. Netanyahu also had made comments that Israeli Arabs were "voting in droves" which were seen inside Israel and in the U.S. and Arab world as racist baiting. Netanyahu told Mitchell that Israeli Arabs voting was "sacrosanct" and that he was only trying to get his own supporters to vote. Suggestive of the rifts created in the election most interviews were given selectively to Israeli television stations. Netanyahu is now broadening his reach by talking to NBC, MSNBC, and Fox News of the U.S., but no response is given to NYT requests so far. Some experts see the rift between Netanyahu and Obama as irreparable, and now carried to a new level, as the comments seen as racist baiting on Israeli Arabs were discussed in a phone conversation between the two leaders.
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