How Israel’s Jewishness is overtaking its democracy (Shibley Telhami, Brookings)

When U.S. leaders and commentators warn that the absence of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will make it impossible for Israel to be both a Jewish and democratic state, they generally mean that a Jewish democracy requires a Jewish majority; if Israel encompasses the West Bank and Gaza, Arabs will become a majority. What they may not have realized is that, in the meantime, half of Israeli Jews have come to seek not only a Jewish majority but even Jewish exclusivity.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/03/11-israel-public-opinion-polling-telhami