Skokie. Chicago suburb. About 50 percent of its residents are Jewish. Kosher restaurants, synagogues, Hebrew studies. Feeling at home. More than 20 years ago, the Supreme Court approved the National Socialist Party a march instead, something perceived by the Jewish community as offensive and threatening.

US Jews remember that parade, the moment when the sense of security was undermined, the moment America legitimized Jewish haters and swastikas to express their views under the law. One woman, in her 60s, introduced herself and then said that it was a spectacle that Israel was right to raise it but not America, because here Jews are a minority.

I remember my reaction. What is she talking about? She lives comfortably in a pleasant, educated suburb, the kids in college are good, where's the sense of insecurity? White and established American, not an illegal immigrant from Mexico. But then the realization hit me: I've been a majority, a Jew in the Jewish state all my life. And it is a privilege that those born into it do not appreciate, because they have no idea what it is to be something else.

Arab lives in the State of Israel. From the time the state was founded, they are a minority, living and progressing and creating and studying in a nation-state. And no matter how hard they try to integrate, there is always someone to send them a message: Say thank you that you are here, who we gave you, on our bottom line. You are a guest here and your civil rights are limited, dependent on our goodwill, mood, polls.
They are always a complex. An Arab doctor who treats the patient with dedication is an "Arab doctor", an Arab Israeli citizen who cooperates with terror is "everyone." The Arabs are not going to vote, they are "flocking to the polls". They do not exercise their civil right, they threaten the right-wing rule.

How does an educated young Arab who sees himself as an Israeli feel when he hears Benny Gantz announce that he did not sit in government with the joint list? What message does Gantz convey to Arab children born into Netanyahu's rule, and from the moment of their birth they were always labeled guilty? After all, the one who connected the Arab parties so different from each other, was Lieberman, who pushed to increase the blocking rate and left them no choice. There is no connection between the world view of Balad and Hadash. So first we pushed to the wall, and now we criticize them for being pushed?

Gantz's statement is miserable not only because it harms the entire public, but first and foremost because it perpetuates the majority's superiority. And if she was told only for election purposes - she was even more miserable.