Richard Ebeling on the discrimination of the Arab minority under Israeli democracy

Many of the complaints made by Arabs who are Israeli citizens within Israel is the high frequency with which government approval and funding for housing, local infrastructure, licenses for operating businesses or offering various occupational and professional services are denied to or delayed within their communities, compared to Jewish Israelis and their communities in the country. 

Israel may be a political democracy and have a vibrant and innovative private sector of international stature, but it is also a highly regulated economy and welfare state.  Government approvals and permissions and fiscal expenditures dominate a wide variety of everyday life.  Even if the Arab complaints and accusations of such interventionist discrimination are exaggerated, it is present to one degree or another precisely because the majority group politically controls the regulatory and redistributive processes in the halls of government, and many Jewish Israelis look suspiciously at their Arab Israeli neighbors and desire more such government benefits for themselves.

~ Richard Ebeling, "Free Market Liberalism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," The Future of Freedom Foundation, June 9, 2021