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Poll: Half of Israeli teens don’t want Arab students in their class

Study polling 500 teens aged 15 to 18 finds that most don’t think Arabs enjoy equal rights in Israel, and most of those don’t think Arabs deserve equal rights.
By Or Kashti
Haaretz  -   Mon, September 06, 2010
Sixty four percent of Israeli teens aged 15 to 18 say that Arab Israelis do not enjoy full equal rights [...]

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‘I would gladly kill Arabs – even slaughter them’

In new bid to defend publishing controversial images, former IDF soldier Eden Abergil writes on Facebook ‘In war there are no rules.’
By Haaretz Service
Haaretz     Fri, August 20, 2010
Eden Abergil, the former Israel Defense Forces soldier who has been criticized for publishing controversial images on Facebook, allegedly wrote on her Facebook page on Thursday that [...]

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Jerusalem: Accused torturer set to head police- Arab relations

by Brian Ennis
IMEMC & Agencies - July 28, 2010
‘Captain George’ a former military interrogator is head of Arab relations for the police in the tense and divided city of Jerusalem.
The former military interrogator known as ‘Captain George’ has been appointed the director of Arab affairs for the Jerusalem District Police.
The post includes responsibilities [...]

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Saber Kushour: ‘My conviction for “rape by deception” has ruined my life’

Saber Kushour, an Arab Israeli convicted of ‘rape by deception’ of a Jewish woman, gives his side of the story in an exclusive interview

Harriet Sherwood
The Observer – 25 July 2010
Saber Kushour apologises as he asks his guests to move the plastic chairs on his breeze-block balcony a little closer to the door to [...]

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Rights group: 75% of Palestinian children in East Jerusalem live in poverty

ACRI report cites a severe discrimination and neglect in East Jerusalem, which is home to more than 300,000 Palestinians.
By DPA
Haaretz – 10 May 2010
Almost three-quarters of Palestinian children living in East Jerusalem are poor, according to a report released by an Israeli human rights group on Monday.

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The Arabs, weak by choice <==

The history of the Arab League since its inception in 1944 suggests that the Arab regimes have long chosen to be weak and irrelevant.

Hasan Afif El-Hasan*
Al Ahram Weekly - 7 May 2010
Nation states in the area from Morocco to Iraq, including the Arabian Peninsula, share a distinct culture and history and speak Arabic, albeit in [...]

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Jonathan Cook: Israel — Arab family denied right to rent home

Jonathan Cook: Israel — Arab family denied right to rent home

The National – 21 March 2010
NEVATIM, ISRAEL // The Zakai and Tarabin families should be a picture of happy coexistence across the ethnic divide, a model for others to emulate in Israel.
But Natalie and Weisman Zakai say the past three years – since the Jewish couple offered to rent their home to Bedouin friends, Ahmed [...]

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Arab director of Oscar film sparks Israeli outrage

Agence France Presse - 7 March 2010
JERUSALEM (AFP) – The Arab co-director of an Israeli film nominated for an Academy Award has scandalised the Jewish state by saying that he does not see himself as representing the country at Sunday evening’s awards ceremony.
The film “Ajami”, directed by Israeli Arab Scandar Copti and his Jewish colleague [...]

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Galloway raps Arabs over forsaking Gaza

PRESSTV    22 December 2009
British MP George Galloway speaks to reporters in Damascus December 21, 2009, during his campaign to aid Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
British Member of Parliament George Galloway has leveled strong criticism at Arabs over their inaction and failure to play a role in organizing aid convoys to the besieged Gaza Strip.

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Fifteen minutes of hate in Silwan

The vicious anti-Arab sentiments flowing through the streets of this Jerusalem neighbourhood are a shock to the senses
Meron Rapoport
guardian.co.uk, Monday 31 August 2009 13.00 BST
It’s searing hot, but there’s some pleasantness about the stone-flagged path rising from the centre of Silwan, Jerusalem. Maybe it’s the breeze, or the stone houses oozing coolness into the [...]

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Robert Fisk’s World: From the crusaders on, contempt for the Arabs is written in stone

What was it that bestowed upon our ancestors such ill-will towards the Arabs?

Saturday, 22 August 2009
Not long ago, the owner of a Majorcan palace found 13th-century graffiti on his basement wall. It was scrawled there by a knight en route to the Crusades. Translated, it read: “Sod the Arabs.”
I owe this sublime quotation to [...]

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Israeli woman denied social benefits for visiting Palestinian husband

By Dana Weiler-Polak

Haaretz     Mon., June 22, 2009
S. was born in Lod, where she lived all her life and is raising her four children. Her only sin, apparently, was in marrying a resident of the territories.
That was enough for the National Insurance Institute to continually investigate her, withhold her social benefits and humiliate [...]

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