About 20% of Israel’s population is Arab and Israel comes in 15th in the UN’s (yes, the UN) latest Human Development Index rankings. The closest ranking Arab country, the UAE, comes in at number 32 on the list.
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This is a guest post by Kenneth Bandler, Director of Communications for the American Jewish Committee.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas must regret the failure of Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beteinu to get Balad, the nationalist party in the Israeli Arab sector, banned from the Knesset elections earlier this year. Balad party head Jamal Zahalka is now openly calling on Abbas to resign.
This is a guest post by Kenneth Bandler, Director of Communications for the American Jewish Committee.
One of the first Israeli casualties in the recent war with Hamas was an Arab construction worker, felled by a missile fired from Gaza into Ashkelon. In an instant, Hamas made clear it does not distinguish its victims. All Israelis are fair game.
Here ’s a report from the Associated Press which yet again demonstrates that Israel is a proper democracy, with proper separation of powers between the legislature, executive and judiciary:
Continue reading ‘Israel’s Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Arab Nationalist Parties’
An ugly and extremely violent confrontation has, for the time being, been avoided in the Israeli Arab town of Umm al Fahm, near Haifa. Israel’s northern police command has decided to postpone a so-called “Jewish pride” march, organized by far right activists and scheduled for Monday, December 15.
Continue reading ‘Umm al Fahm Reprieved from Far Right Threat’
By all accounts, the Yom Kippur holiday in the Israeli city of Acre (Akko in Hebrew, Akka in Arabic) was an ugly affair, marked by riots and clashes between Jewish and Arab residents.
