Posted on 08/11/2005 5:34:31 AM PDT by SJackson
Israeli Arab leaders are drawing up a "blacklist" of grievances, including what they described as fascist and racist phenomena on the part of Israeli society and the establishment towards the country's minority Arab community.
The document is slated to be completed within two weeks and will be submitted to Israeli society, apparently via the Knesset, as well as to international agencies, including the UN and the European Union.
Abed Inbitawi, spokesman for the monitoring committee of the Israeli Arab leadership, said the blacklist would be a compilation that reflected this trend of discrimination, racism and fascism towards the Arab sector.
The decision to draw up the document was taken by the committee after the attack by Jewish terrorist Eden Natan Zada in Shfaram on Thursday in which four local residents, Muslims and Christians, were killed. Zada himself died, apparently after being lynched by an angry mob.
Police are investigating all the circumstances of the incident including the shooting, the lynching, attacks on police and the actions of police involved in the incident.
"This was a planned terror attack and we find it extremely difficult to treat it as an individual action," Inbitawi told The Jerusalem Post. "It marks a certain trend that reflects a growing tendency of fascism and racism in Israeli society generally as well as the establishment towards the minority Arab community," he said.
"We are preparing a blacklist of this phenomena, including laws that we consider to be racist such as the citizenship law that prevents Palestinians who marry Israelis from receiving Israeli citizenship.
"This document will be submitted to Israeli and will also be sent to foreign institutions such as the UN and the European Union. We also intend to raise the issue on the international agenda via the media."
Inbitawi maintained there was no doubt about discrimination towards Arab citizens such as the recent report on health services that showed Arabs received below-average services.
"We are primarily concerned, however, about the trend the exacerbates attitudes of fascism and racism towards the Arab community," said Inbitawi.
"This is something that is directed now against Arabs but which if it is allowed to continue unabated will also affect Jews who believe in democracy and peace.
"We intend to hold a conference at which Jewish peace activists will have a dialogue within us over the issues and how they affect the democratic nature of the State," said Inbitawi.
A senior government official said the pain of Israeli Arabs and the heartache resulting from the attacks in Shfaram was perfectly understandable to Israelis who, unfortunately, had suffered from terrorist atrocities.
"Israeli Arab leaders have the freedom and right to express their concerns, complaints and grievances to the executive and legislative branches of Israeli government as well as to the justice system," a senior official told The Jerusalem Post. "I am proud to say that Israel is a democracy and that Israelis from all walks of life and regardless of their ethnicity can openly express their grievances. This cannot be said for most of Israel?s neighbors."
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"This was a planned terror attack and we find it extremely difficult to treat it as an individual action," Inbitawi told The Jerusalem Post. "It marks a certain trend that reflects a growing tendency of fascism and racism in Israeli society generally as well as the establishment towards the minority Arab community," he said.The Palestinians are the last people to be claiming that terrorist attacks neccesarily involve government sanction or even ambivalence. While the Israeli government may have been lax in dealing with Kach and its affiliated loose cannons (a fact they have recognized and are addressing), to claim they have any culpability in this attack is beyond ridiculous.
-Eric
And do you really blame them? Almost every Middle Eastern Country has tried to destroy Israel and I am surprised they have not tried to kick out all the arabs from their area, since they can be trusted as far has you could throw them...
I'm 100% pro Israeli, but they're right. Israeli laws are very repressive towards non-jews.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Palestinians can be voting citizens.
Context and perspective is everything.
This report can only be judged properly if those same arab "leaders" tell us by way of background how the Jewish minority citizens are treated in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan...
* crickets *
What a transparently ignorant statement!
I notice that Catholics, Presbytarians and Buhddists did not sign that sandmaggot press release!
It's the elephant in the living room.
Being a "Jewish State" is incompatible with the presence of a significant number of non-Jewish residents, and completely incompatible with a large (and growing) demographic of voting non-Jewish citizens.
What happens to Israel when the Israeli Arab population has grown to a voting majority?
You ain't kidding.
The IDF and police are set to expel them out of their homes by force. Destroy their livelihood. Tear up their houses of worship. Put them in some sort of refuge camps. Force them to dig up their dead sons who fell in battle.
Israel would never treat non Jews like that.
You sure you're 100% pro Israel? I suspect only 98%.
What did I leave out that you can point to how repressive Israel is to non-Jews?
It's the forced circumcisions and forcing Matzos down their throat at Passover that realy gets the non-Jews mad.
They should move to stinking Arab countries and see how much worse it is.
If they find life in Israel sooo oppressive, there are 22 Arab-ruled, Muslims-only nations. But they still enjoy a higher standard of living in Israel.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
Yeah, especially those ones that require every gentile citizen to donate a pint of blood every year for the Passover matzah, and also give up the eyes of their first-born.
Those aren't so bad, it's the gefelte fish that pisses me off.
"The decision to draw up the document was taken by the committee after the attack by Jewish terrorist Eden Natan Zada in Shfaram on Thursday in which four local residents, Muslims and Christians, were killed. Zada himself died, apparently after being lynched by an angry mob."
Are they going to include the numerous lynchings committed by Jews of the thousandfolds greater number of Arab terrorists?
Maybe they will be inclined to depart for the new Palestinian State.
I love it when people that dont live in Israel talk about Israel. Its so amusing. You're a dimwit.
I love it when people that have no facts to back up their unreasoning blind hate resort to personal insults.
BTW I have lived in Israel, my son and daughter live in Israel now, and my son has served in the IDF.
Israel is racist? Yeah, right. Its Arab citizens enjoy voting rights, can get out of Army service (unlike most Jewish citizens), they get welfare, they get top notch medical care, they have the same benefits from the Israeli legal system as Israeli citizens, etc. Compare and contrast the situation of Jewish citizens of Arab countries...oh, that's right, the vast majority of Jews were "asked" (generally with the implied threat that they wouldn't survive long) to leave Arab lands in which their families had lived for hundreds or thousands of years right after Israel was created, and had their property either stolen or were forced to sell it for pennies on the dollar. Compare and contrast also with the Paleostinians, who absolutely refuse to live with Jews among them (which is why the Gaza Jews are being forcibly removed). Isn't that known as "ethnic cleansing?"
To be sure, Israel isn't a perfect nation - it is, after all, a country designed and run by fallible (and sometimes VERY fallible, i.e. Socialist) human beings. But to compare its actions with regard to Arab citizens as if they were equal to the treatment of Jews by Arab governments or the Paleos is absurd at best, and a calculated, vile and lying bunch of anti-Israeli and/or anti-Jewish propaganda.
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