C.Martel
23rd December 2017, 01:36 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tasked Head of the Israeli Knesset, David Amsalem, to promote the nationality bill, which considers Arabs as second-class citizens.
[During the most recent Knesset discussions of the bill, the following were some of the comments by legislators (15% of Knesset members are Arab; 20% of Israeli citizens are Arab):
MK Osama Sa’adi (Arab, Joint List Party) said, ”This is one of the most dangerous laws in the delicate relations between the Jewish majority and the Arab minority. What is absent from the law is more severe than what it contains. This law excludes the Arab minority, which is 20%, from the first letter to the last, as though we do not even exist. And then people wonder why the Arab public is not loyal. You are pushing us against the wall. You are inserting the term democracy as lip service. Nothing is left of it.”
https://israelpalestinenews.org/knesset-head-push-bill-promoting-arabs-second-class-citizens/
[During the most recent Knesset discussions of the bill, the following were some of the comments by legislators (15% of Knesset members are Arab; 20% of Israeli citizens are Arab):
MK Osama Sa’adi (Arab, Joint List Party) said, ”This is one of the most dangerous laws in the delicate relations between the Jewish majority and the Arab minority. What is absent from the law is more severe than what it contains. This law excludes the Arab minority, which is 20%, from the first letter to the last, as though we do not even exist. And then people wonder why the Arab public is not loyal. You are pushing us against the wall. You are inserting the term democracy as lip service. Nothing is left of it.”
https://israelpalestinenews.org/knesset-head-push-bill-promoting-arabs-second-class-citizens/