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| * problems in the definition of state boundaries | | * problems in the definition of state boundaries |
| "Ethnic Democracy" and Civil Inequality | | "Ethnic Democracy" and Civil Inequality |
| * The Knesset: defines Israel as the state of the Jewish people
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| ** Israel is a "constitutionally exclusive ethnic state": accepting the state as a jewish state is an illusionary identity at best and a distorted identity at worst
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| * Israel suppresses the mobility of the minority by the systematic exclusion of Arabs from key arenas of Israeli society.
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| * Israel discriminates against Palestinian-Arab citizens on a daily basis and eliminates every possibility of upward mobility of the Arabs under Israeli rule.
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| *Smooh's "ethnic democracy" can be seen as an oxymoron and a better term would be "ethnocracy" defined as a state that is appropriated by one ethnic group and its diasporas and relagates other groups to a secondary type of citizenship.
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| *Ghanem concludes that Israel cannot be considered a democracy because of the ethnic discrimination despite having some characteristics of a democracy.
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