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If Israel can't offer the Palestinians a fair solution that takes their basic interests and needs into account, then the Palestinians are likely to end negotiations and punish Israel by compelling it to choose between three unattractive and risky options: Enfranchise Palestinians (the non-Jewish, one-state solution), maintain the status quo (the non-democratic, one-state solution), or disengage unilaterally (the insecure, two-state solution).
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Take the West Bank: Without a negotiated solution, the occupation will likely continue and Israel will not be able to remain a Jewish and democratic state: Enfranchise the subjects under your control and you will, by virtue of demographics, no longer be a Jewish state.
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Restore the Vote to People with Felony Convictions - Enfranchise ex-offenders who have paid their debt to society.
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Enfranchise them, and they become self-respecting and country-loving citizens.
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Giving further consideration to the situation among the Indians, the legislature of Massachusetts passed in 1869 what is known as _An Act to Enfranchise the Indians of the Commonwealth_.
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Enfranchise women, and you will, in due time, see them using and succeeding in the use of the same means of self-support that men use, and becoming equally independent.
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Enfranchise women, and in due time, you shall no more see, nor hear of, the awfully degraded conditions to which so many females have sunk, and to which they have reduced the males, who have been their partners in the utter desecration of the most sacred functions of their bodies.
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Enfranchise women, and in due time, you shall no more see, nor hear of, the awfully degraded conditions to which so many females have sunk, and to which they have reduced the males, who have been their partners in the utter desecration of the most sacred functions of their bodies.
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Enfranchise women, and you will, in due time, see them using and succeeding in the use of the same means of self-support that men use, and becoming equally independent.
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Enfranchise them, and they become self-respecting and country-loving citizens.
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