The correct and just democratic solution devised by Israel from the very dawn of its establishment—whereby its Arab inhabitants would live as full, equal-rights citizens of the state (in accordance with the Halachic precept, "And you shall love the stranger")—now faces a potential crisis; For if there was a Palestinian national manipulation of the election results in Israel—and if the vast disparity between the number of seats held by Arab parties in the previous Knesset (10) and the number of seats in the 26th Knesset (19) is indeed the result of such a manipulation, orchestrated and executed in collusion with Turkey—then the sacred and just political arrangement enshrined in the Declaration of Independence since Friday, May 14, 1948, can no longer be sustained. In our assessment, the issue of Palestinian citizenship in Israel will return to the arena of the Israeli Arab conflict and will be addressed in the future within the framework of peace agreements between the Government of Israel and the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, the PLO . Given that the fundamental rights of both peoples in Israel cannot differ—and that all civil rights must be identical, as Palestinians are not merely residents of Israel but an integral part of the people of Israel, and thus citizens of the state—the only matter left for renewed deliberation would be the question of voting rights, should it be established that a Palestinian national effort—in cooperation with the hostile state of Turkey—was made to manipulate Israel’s elections in order to gain governance over the Jewish state. The move being orchestrated with Turkey—if, indeed, it is proven to be taking shape—would preclude Palestinian citizens of Israel from retaining their right to vote. Given the complexity of the Israeli Palestinian conflict—which encompasses Jews living within a Palestinian national-political sphere, as well as Palestinians living within a sovereign Israeli political sphere—one might consider decoupling residency from citizenship for both Jews on the Palestinian side and Palestinians on the Jewish side. After all, the 120-year-long war between these two peoples renders the status of Palestinians as citizens of Israel an anomaly—one that is, in fact, quite astonishing. It is particularly striking as a testament to the strength of Israeli democracy, which has allowed members of a people with whom a bloody, all-out war is being waged to become citizens of the state and enjoy the full spectrum of rights afforded to Israelis. In the coming months, we will learn whether this experiment has failed utterly—whether a national collective of Palestinian Arabs has spurned the democratic hand extended toward them, and whether Palestinian citizens of Israel have sought to destroy the state by exploiting its own democratic political system. At stake—as previously noted—is a matter of immense gravity: the fate of the Palestinian people and of Israel, within a new theater of war. In this arena, Turkey is openly working toward the destruction of Israel—much like its ally in the new Islamic axis they are establishing in the Middle East: Iran.