Originally posted by: Siwy
Originally posted by: Doboji
Originally posted by: Siwy
Originally posted by: Doboji
Arabs have equal rights within Israel, with the exception that they are not (all) permitted to server in the IDF. Bedouins and Druze do serve, but the Palestinian-Israeli-Arabs do not.
However having said that there is a fair amount of discrimination against Arabs in Israeli society.
-Max
Didn?t you just contradict yourself? Arabs have equal rights within Israel ~ but Arabs don?t have equal rights
Anyway, your list of "exceptions" is not complete, like residence and citizenship rights or land sale and lease rights for example ~ and there are more. But I'm sure you can find out the rest of "exceptions" yourself
Actually thats incorrect... anyone can lease land in Israel,
No, you are wrong ~
US Department of State released a Human Rights report on March 8th, 2006 which says this: ?Approximately 93 percent of land in the country is public domain, the majority of which is owned by the state, with approximately 12.5 percent owned by the Jewish National Fund (JNF). All public lands and that owned by the JNF are administered by the governmental body, the Israel Lands Administration (ILA). By law public land may only be leased,
and the JNF's statutes prohibit land sale or lease to non-Jews.?
...and the residence and citzenship rights for arab-israelis are also equal.
Wrong once again ~ from the same source: ?
The 2003 Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law bars Palestinians from the occupied territories from acquiring residence or citizenship rights through marriage to Israelis or to Palestinian residents of Jerusalem. In July the Knesset extended the law until March 2006 and amended it so that Palestinian men aged 35 and older and women aged 25 and older were eligible for Israeli citizenship through family unification.
Advocacy groups claimed that, despite the amendment, the law discriminated against Arab citizens and residents?
Actually... Public lands aren't for sale to anyone... Jewish or otherwise...
as for your second argument, you are talking about non-citizens rights to become citizens.. Not about the rights of Israeli-Arab citzens...
-Max
an accurate explanation of the discrimination that does exist as far as leases... it applies to land which is owned by the Jewish National Fund
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There are formal restrictions on the lease of JNF land. Under its charter the purpose of the JNF was to purchase land for the settlement of Jews, and this has been interpreted to mean that JNF land should not be leased, at least on a long-term basis, to non-Jews.
Some have argued that despite the private nature of JNF land, it is now administered by a government agency and thus should be leased on an exactly equal basis to both Jewish and Arab Israelis. Such a policy, however, would violate the very agreement which placed JNF lands under government administration.
Official restrictions aside, in practice JNF land has been leased to Arab citizens of Israel, both for short-term and long-term use. To cite one example of the former, JNF-owned land in the Besor Valley (Wadi Shallaleh) near Kibbutz Re'em has been leased on a yearly basis to Bedouins for use as pasture (The Negev Bedouin and Livestock Raising, Berg Publishers Ltd., 1994, p. 28, 36, 38).
Arab citizens of Israel have also leased JNF-owned land for housing purposes via a "legal device" used to evade the restrictions against such long-term use: The land in question is traded to the government so that it can be leased out and the JNF receives other land in return.
While such swaps have clearly taken place, sometimes under threat of court action, it is not known how much land originally belonging to the JNF has been leased to Arabs in this way.