A state for all its citizens

Arab-Israeli politician Azmi Bishara has caused a stir by demanding that Arab citizens of Israel be afforded the same rights as Jewish ones:

Israel has given such strategic significance to this campaign because it understands only too well that the NDA has placed its finger upon the very contradiction that Zionism cannot resolve. And it has done so not through armed struggle, or calling for "throwing Jews into the sea," but through practicing their democratic civil rights to institution building, party building, and eloquent and impassioned liberal humanist and democratic discourse. Moreover, NDA demands have not only called for full equality of the Palestinian Arab citizenry, but have also included the demand for the state to recognize its Arab citizens as a national minority living in its homeland. This is intolerable for Zionism because it subverts the current Zionist narrative of exclusive Jewish rights to historical Palestine, and affirms that Palestinians were not just "non-Jews" living in Eretz Yisrael before it was "redeemed," but were a people who were repeatedly and systematically forced off their land throughout the years to create the "Jewish democratic state" in the first place.