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Akuperma,
1. No country allows non-citizens to vote. Switzerland has such a tough law (prospective citizend have to stand for election in their cantons and details about them and their families are published in the press) that very few succeed. Their is also no birthright citizenship.
2. The relative poverty (compared to how they lived in Europe and Arab countries they are rich) of Chareidim and Arabs is their own fault. The former choose to live on tzedaka and the latter vote dor parties that function as propaganda tools for Abbas rather than trying to help their constituents. Just to give one example, they even oppose national service within their communities. This closes many opportunities for job training.