Hi all; 258 Jerusalem Post articles with words "Arabs second class citizens", most contrary evidence to Nadine's silly claim that Arabs Israelis are first class citizens of Israel:
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Fawzi Su'ad, a Beduin from another small village on the outskirts of Kiryat Ata, expressed similar views. "I served as a tracker in the IDF for three years, as have all the men in my family. One of my uncles is a disabled veteran," said Su'ad. "I feel deprived and discriminated against. We are not even second class citizens, but third or fourth.
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In recent years, Bishara's proposal to make Israel a "state of all its citizens" has joined Halacha as a rising ideological challenge to Zionism. The idea has gained wide allegiance among Israeli Arabs, who argue that they can never be anything but second-class citizens in a country that legally calls itself the "Jewish state."
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The survey revealed that on the question of equality, Israeli Arabs and Druse in general consider themselves to be second- or third-class citizens.
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Another Balad official said it also means that "Arabs become second-class citizens and Jews coming from Brooklyn to Israel immediately get preferential rights over them."
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Add to this Barak's constant talk of wanting to be "everybody's" prime minister, the Oslo Accord's "normalizing" effect on Israeli-Arab relations, and the increasingly widespread recognition that Arabs are second-class citizens in Israel, and the time seemed ripe for giving them a seat at the head table.
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Porat said the law did not call for the annexation of the territory. Its purpose, he added, was to "correct an injustice whereby the Jewish residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza are second-class citizens, because Israeli law does not apply to them. As I see it, as a resident of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, this is an intolerable situation, both as a matter of principle and in practical terms."
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This medieval edict had granted the people of the book personal and property rights and the right to practice their religion. The Jews' status as protected but second-class subjects was decidedly inferior to that of Moslems, but it was nevertheless superior to the status of the Jews in Christian Europe who were bereft of legal rights and subject to periodic pogroms. From Omar's time, the mellah, or Jewish Quarter, would be an integral part of cities throughout the Arab world.
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Instead of an exclusive identity, one which only allows Jews (and increasingly, only halachic Jews) to join the club, post-Zionist philosophy calls for the inclusion of groups previously excluded, not least the Arab citizens of Israel who, whether we like to admit it or not, have been treated as second-class citizens for the past half century.
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Once upon a time, in a not-so-distant land, Jews and Arabs lived in harmony. The Jews paid discriminatory taxes, had to wear an article of clothing that set them off from Moslems, had no right of political self-determination, were prohibited by law from building new synagogues or repairing old ones, were required by law to take a subservient role in any business partnerships with Moslems and were, by law, second-class citizens. It was a golden age.
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If you were to ask the average American Jew what the present argument is, they would tell you that Israel, with its Orthodox culture, does not recognize Reform and Conservative Jews as real Jews. Many American Jews say they feel disenfranchised and not welcome in Israel. Some feel like second-class citizens. Others feel that Israel does not recognize their version of Judaism. This is not the case.
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-- Carl |
