On thread topic, I must note that one of the coauthors has stated exactly what I said: that there is indeed a midlevel professional layer of the government which thinks differently than coaliton policy (which, in any case, seems at times to be who can be the toughest today). Do you actually think the proposed administration budget in the US just comes on its own out of the President’s office? There are many internal fights, at several levels of government, before something is finalized (forgetting that the House has to actually begin the legislation). All Chief Executives discover they can’t generally be as powerful as they thought they’d be. There are many many books documenting how bureaucracy limits and prevents top down decisions. What this piece says is that High Court decision may have more of an effect at mid level than the preening bird top level. That is new, and hopeful.

But thanks for noticing my comments. Many days, it is all I have to write them.

Given your lack of knowledge of the subject matter I am assuming you don’t live in Israel. Maybe you can come as a tourist one day to visit Rahat and the other 6 towns built by the Israeli government for Israeli Arabs and the many other Arab towns inside Israel. Have a wonderful day.

Rights must be only equal to all citizens of same state. These Arabs are not Israeli citizens.

Here, have a look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_al-Fahm

First there is some invisible Gandhian mass movement among the Palestinians, then there was some stale theory about an imaginary and irreversible process of economic integration that would push Israel to grant citizenship to the Palestinians, then there are the persistent threats of violence as if it would be something new and unprecedented, and now we are on to some fiction about mid-career bureaucrats who have decided to care about unenforceable High Court advisory opinions while their actual evil bosses do not notice that money [that is in short supply] that could be spent on their own constituents is going to the Arabs, which is apparently something that they are working tirelessly to avoid only to be thwarted by some of their own underlings. And of course there is the obsession with the High Court which is best classified as pliable and better classified as marginal to the processes that take place, especially on issues of budget allocation.

I am sorry, but you are entirely out of your element here. Let me repeat… Israel is a small country with very limited budgets. There is no bureaucrat on earth that can stand up to a minister who is looking for somewhere to cut 3% of the budget and there is nowhere to hide the money that is used to fund all the programs listed above. If it is going to those programs it is because it has been decided to direct it there at the highest levels. Your “mid-level bureaucrat” theory to the contrary is derived entirely from your imaginative perception of reality.