What are the obligations of citizens in a democracy?
For many, so accustomed to the media’s ‘rights-based’ discourse, the question would likely not even register.
However any social contract within the parameters of democratic self-government surely includes a few basic responsibilities that all are expected to share – such as national loyalty, restraint and respect for the law and the common good. These basic requirements, it seems, would certainly apply to the country’s minorities, as well as the majority.
Yet, when surveying the media’s coverage of Israel, we’re often struck by the myopic focus on the putative abrogation of the rights of its Arab minority by the Jewish majority, without the slightest suggestion that obligations exist on the part of the former as well as the latter.
An Economist article on proposed Knesset legislation, in response to Arab lawmakers’ visit to the families of Palestinian terrorists who killed Israelis…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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