Lisoosh, Good reply :) I have a question though. Let's focus on item (2), since it seems the most likely: Withdrawal from West Bank and Gaza. Somewhere down the line, assuming there is peace and security is not an issue, does Israel remain a viable jewish state? You still have a bunch of arabs living inside Israel proper, who might, someday, become a majority (considering natality rates). Do you expell them? How exactly do you treat them? Even while they are still a minority. Can an arab-Israeli ever dream of being PM, say? I actually see a lot of parallels there with Lebanon (my home country, so I happen to know a bit about it). The sectarian system we've had in place there since the French mandate is only democracy in disguise. I don't consider it Democracy if only a Sunni can be PM, or only a Christian Maronite can be President. But I also see where that system came from: the necessity of integrating the various sects that made up Lebanon without a single one being subjugated by the others. In many ways, the Jewish-Arab issue we're talking about in Israel is somewhat similar, except that Israel has so far chosen to be a Jewish state (let's say Lebanon had chosen to be a Maronite state, where the other sects were "inferior" politically, as a parallel). When it comes to Lebanon, i personally advocate true democracy: One man, one vote. Anyone can be elected to any post. If it so happens our President is always Shia, because we have a lot of Shia...then so be it. But I also recognize the pitfalls of true Democracy. I don't mean to digress, but I see the Israeli issue in a similar light (i might be wrong though, since i'm no expert). How do you see reconciling TRUE democracy with having a Jewish state? Aren't the 2 notions inherently contradictory?