There Are People Who Don’t Identify As Part of the Country They Live In
As appeared in my Times of Israel blog. What To Do With a Population That Doesn’t Identify As Part of the Country They Live In. By: David S. Levine Imagine living in a country where your fellow citizens do not identify with the same national identity as you do. Of course, everyone should be free to maintain their own cultural identity and/or practice their religion but still marry that identity/practice with their nationality. For example, Italian-American or French-Israeli. What if you learned that an overwhelming majority of citizens who make up nearly 20% of your country’s population do not consider themselves, or identify as, members of the country they are citizens of? And because they are sympathetic and empathetic to your county’s enemies, they are potential supporters of those who wish to destroy your country. What should your government do? On May 22, 2025, the Jewish New Syndicate reported: “Seventy percent of Israel’s Arabs, or some 1.5 m...
