The New Apartheid

The Israeli Government approved a law project that reserves sell of lands property of the State to only the Jews for "security reasons", decision considered "racist" for the left, informed an official source today.

This text, approved yesterday for 17 ministers against two and an abstention in the Ministerial Committee of Laws, was presented by Rabbi Haim Druckman, member of the house of representatives of the Religious National Party (that it represents the Jewish colonists), and ignores a decision emitted in March of 2000 for the Supreme Court of Israel. Adopted for four judges against one, the 2000 decision pronounced against the discrimination between Jews and Arabs, benefiting the couple of Israeli Arabs, Adel and Imán Kaadan, that were authorized to buy one lands kibbutz (cooperative village) to live in the north of Israel.

"The lamentable decision of the Israeli Cabinet resembles it one ' apartheid '. It does not contribute for the approach between Jews and Arabs ", thought Kaadan, cited for the periodical "Maariv".

According to Association for the Human Rights in Israel (Acri), the lands of the State represent 93% of the Israeli territory.

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