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1: Treating Muslim Israeli citizens? As in, Arab Israelis?
Well, they are treated as citizens of the state... I don't really understand the question. Are you asking about me, personally? I treat them like people.
2: This question is somewhat outside of my knowledge such as it is, and I don't feel comfortable answering it. I was not involved in legal administration and am not entirely familiar with the legal processes regarding citizenship.
It is quite possible however. (Israel offered citizenship to Arabs in the West Bank in 1967 after taking it from Jordan. Most refused.) It includes an oath of allegiance to the state, which many Palestinians don't wish to swear.
3: Palestinians are treated... well, who are you referring to? There are many Arab Israelis who identify themselves as Palestinians. I'm guessing you mean those who live without citizenship, though. Since I won't talk about their exact civil status (Oslo made things more complicated), I'll say that I treat them like people, personally.
4: Look, I'll answer the question (as I see it), but that isn't really what I wanted to talk about. I figured you guys would ask me about how soldiers generally feel about Palestinians, or what happens at checkpoints, or midnight raids, or that sort of thing.
SIGH, so let's look at this.
Some of the Palestinians living in homes prior to 1948 were unlawfully taken from their homes by Israel. There is minimal dissent on this point from virtually any party.
I don't know about Palestinians forcibly removed from "their" land. Land ownership is a complex question which refers to land titles and deeds existing in 1948 and back. Relevant are things such as types of land ownership under the Ottomans. The evidence which you claim exists in reference to Palestinian "land" is fragmentary and unclear, and is to be understood in a case-by-case basis. Start your search engine. If the website which you read to educate yourself on the subject of Palestinian land ownership does not begin dispassionately and without agenda about tithes and taxes in the 1800s and how this translated under various rules, you are doing it wrong. Welcome to scholarship.
Okay. Many Arabs, at the very least, lost much property. This is a wrong that needs righting. The most obvious and simple option would be to allow them to return to their homes, granting them citizenship, etc. If that is done, however, it would clearly jeopardize the Jewish character of the state, and possibly jeopardize much, much more (if you can't use your imagination to figure it out, start watching Arab and Palestinian media on the subject of Israel. Not the translated stuff).
The next best option, as I see it, would be monetary reparations. This would be okay, but this offer has been rejected by Palestinian leaders multiple times (most recently with Olmert, if I'm not mistaken).
Beyond that, I really don't know. I suppose it will eventually end with a monetary settlement, but I'm not a fortune-teller.