By remaining loyal participants in Israel’s democracy charade, Palestinian citizens of Israel continue to validate the Israeli establishment, thus harming, not only Palestinian communities in Israel but, in fact, Palestinians everywhere.
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Elections will matter in Palestine when they are called to include all people who live between the River and the Sea -- one person, one vote for a single legislature and executive in a Palestine that is liberated.
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The third Israeli elections to be held within a twelve-month period once again failed to bring about the desired outcome. If anyone was hoping to see an end to the political deadlock that exists within Israeli politics, they must be very disappointed. In fact, prospects for a stable government that is supported by a majority in Israel’s main legislative body, the Knesset, seem as unlikely as ever.
Yehonatan Geffen Photo Credit: Channel 2 news
“The people again chose a government that is based on intimidating people. They selected a racist that, on election day, told the media the Arabs are flocking to the polls like mice. What would you say if in Germany people said the Jews are flocking to the polls like mice?” Yonaton Geffen charged.
Image: Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman
The Zionist obsession with the presence of non-Jews in historical Palestine is as old as Israel itself. First Israeli Prime Minister, the Polish David Ben Gurion, lamented in 1948 on their failure to “clear the entire central Galilee region” of the Palestinians.
Poll reveals that 47 per cent of respondents would like to see Israel’s Arab citizens stripped of their citizenship rights
by URI AVNERY
Netanyahu demand that the Palestinian leadership recognize Israel as the “Nation State of the Jewish People just another trick to sabotage the “peace process”
WHAT’S WRONG about the demand that the Palestinian leadership recognize Israel as the “Nation State of the Jewish People”?
Well, practically everything.
States recognize each other. They don’t have to recognize each other’s ideological character.
