Uri Avnery: Israel Officially Declares War on the Palestinian People


	Uri Avnery: Israel Officially Declares War on the Palestinian People

jklugman

3-22-2009 4:25 PM

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israel, uri avnery, racism, discrimination

jklugman says:

Until 2002, Palestinians who married Israeli Arabs (which was very common, because the 1948 borders of Israel cut across Arab villages and clans) became Israeli citizens. Then the Knesset passed a law preventing Israeli Arabs from bringing their spouses with them into Israel.

Jewish and Arab petitioners challenged the law in the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Ministry of Justice lawyers defending the law blatantly asserted that Israel is at war with the Palestinian people.

Via Philip Weiss

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