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To: William B. Kohn who wrote (11563)	2/15/2002 9:00:30 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Re: A responce from that from this guy who gets indignant when Israeli's defend themselves and eliminate terrorists, but makes light of the mistreatment and terror that Turkish guest workers feel in Germany, and the indignation of North African and Arabian workers feel when they come to Europe. Hey, don't get it wrong, Willie! European Judeofascists are 100% WITH YOU IN EVERY WAY!! (Well... almost in every way --we won't pick an Arab slut as Miss Europe any time soon! [see article below]) Jackboot Israel is Europe's beau ideal.... What a pity we don't have an Ariel Sharon atop every EU government... We've got "Schengen" as our overall border-control policy but we should have curfews and military checkpoints across the board! Miradors and surveillance drones over our immigrant innercities --but who knows, if our Gestapo(s) could only stage-manage a coupla terrorist attacks on European soil.... then time might be ripe for full-fledged Judeofascism --from Lisbon to Tel-Aviv, from Palermo to Helsinki, from Dublin to Moscow! Israel's apartheid Fed up with restrictions and discrimination, last month Israeli Arabs joined their Palestinian brethren in the battle against Israeli Jews. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Flore de Préneuf Nov. 3, 2000 \| BAQA AL-GHARBIYA, Israel -- Adel Kaadan wants out. The main street in Kaadan's hometown 20 miles north of Tel Aviv is lined with neatly manicured flower beds and decorative palm trees. Off main street, however, the sidewalk ends, and the cracked asphalt and littered streets reveal the darker face of Arab life in Israel -- one of poverty, discrimination, neglect and violent distress. For six years now, Kaadan has tried to move his family out of the run-down, overcrowded Arab town of Baqa to the greener pastures of Katzir, a small Jewish village built on state-owned land, where open spaces, whitewashed houses and impeccably paved streets form a picture of suburban bliss. But the Katzir municipal council has barred Kaadan from building a home there for a simple reason: He's an Arab. Comprising roughly 18 percent of the country's population, Israeli Arabs like Kaadan pay taxes, vote in Israeli elections and speak Hebrew. Tired of being treated as a second-class citizen, Kaadan sued the state in 1995. On paper, he won. But in practice, Kaadan and many other Arabs are still waiting for Israel to uphold their basic human rights. Israel has treated its Arab minority -- the descendants of the 150,000 Arabs who stayed put when Israel was established during the War of Independence in 1948 -- as the enemy within for decades, as a fifth column with links to the greater Arab world, bent on undermining the Jewish state. (Other Palestinians became refugees in the West Bank, Gaza and neighboring Arab countries.) Until 1966, Israeli Arabs were subjected to curfews, administrative detentions, land confiscations and employment restrictions under a military regime. Israel even required its Arabs to carry "movement licenses" whenever they left their villages. Recently, however, the idea that Arabs should be treated as equal citizens has begun to take root in Israeli society. Indeed, small signs of positive change are everywhere. In 1998, Israelis appointed the first Arab justice to the Supreme Court. In 1999, for the first time in the contest's history, the country selected a long-lashed Arab beauty as Miss Israel. In March, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision based on the Kaadan case, ruling that the government may not allocate state-owned land to communities like Katzir that bar Arab residents, and holding that "equality is among the fundamental principles of the state." [snip] salon.com