PLAN TO BAN ARABS BUYING ISRAELI HOMES CRITICIZED
Reuters, 7/8/02
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli government support for a proposed law banning
Arab citizens of Israel from buying homes in housing projects on
state-owned land drew fire from the country's attorney-general Monday.
A statement released by Attorney-General Eliyakim Rubinstein's office said
he "urged ministers not to adopt an unnecessary law that could further
unravel the delicate fabric of Jewish-Arab relations."
Left-wing opposition leader Yossi Sarid released a statement calling the
decision another in a line that "transforms Israel into a racist state,
perhaps the most racist state of all democratic nations."
The cabinet voted 17-2 Sunday to support a bill proposed by a member of the
National Religious Party, an ultranationalist partner in the ruling
coalition, to bar Arabs from buying homes in community housing projects
built on state land...
Arabs make up about 20 percent of the population of the Jewish state and
often complain of entrenched discrimination by state institutions.
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