What If They Declared A Palestinian State And Nobody Came?

An exaggeration, but Palestinian Arabs seem to know something that the politicians and diplomats who will be at the Annapolis summit seem not to notice.

Thousands of Palestinians apply for Israeli citizenship

...In the months leading up to the upcoming Annapolis peace conference talk of a future division of the city has prompted a staggering increase in nationalization requests by Palestinians seeking to escape life under the Palestinian Authority.

Some 250,000 Palestinians currently reside in Jerusalem. Only 12,000 of them have sought to obtain an Israeli citizenship since 1967, an average of about 300 new citizens a year.

But over the past four months the Interior Ministry has registered an unprecedented 3,000 applications, primarily residents of the Arab neighborhoods unlikely to remain under Israeli sovereignty according to the political initiative currently on the agenda.

Like rats deserting a sinking ship.

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