Comments on: Knesset to pass “separate but equal” communities bill

By: Ben Israel

Ben Israel — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:52:56 +0000

I’m curious. Does the law mean that Arab villages will have to be willing to sell land to Jews and allow Jews to move into them? Or will kibbutzim allow Arabs in as members. Will secular Kibbutzim who up until now have refused to build synagogues now have to set up mosques for the convenience of their future Arab members?

By: Tahel Ilan

Tahel Ilan — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:48:24 +0000

@michael: wait 5 minutes from now and check ynet mivzakim.
that’s how predictable this dictatorship has become.

By: Michael W.

Michael W. — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:09:48 +0000

Has the resolution passed its third reading?

By: Brown brownie

Brown brownie — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:17:28 +0000

Your link to Atid Misgav is broken. Should be: http://www.atidmisgav.org.il

By: Renee Hoffinger

Renee Hoffinger — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:25:54 +0000

Especially painful since so many of these settlements have been built on land the state expropriated from Arab villages. Best of luck in your struggle against apartheid. I used to bristle when others used that word referring to Israel, but the more these discriminatory laws are passed, piled upon the rest of the just plain racism, the more apt the term is to be applied to Israel. Another nail in the coffin of Israeli democracy and hopes for peace.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:57:44 +0000

Disgusting, but this is nationalism. The Palestinians/Arabs are “the other” which must face apartheid in order to “preserve” Israel’s “Jewishness”, which is what preserves the current power structure.