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Looting, killing and raping -- by twisting their words they call it "empire"; and wherever they have created a wilderness they call it "peace" -- Tacitus

Wednesday, July 10

There's a word for this: Apartheid

Plan to Keep Israeli Arabs Off Some Land Is Backed A cabinet vote endorsing a bill that would bar Israeli Arabs from buying homes in Jewish communities built on state land caused an uproar here today, with critics in and outside the government calling it racist.

On Sunday the cabinet voted, 17 to 2 with one abstention, to support the bill submitted by Rabbi Haim Druckman, a lawmaker from the rightist National Religious Party.

The bill, which would amend an existing law, says that state land allocated to build communities in Israel will be "for Jewish settlement only."

More than 90 percent of the land in Israel is state owned or controlled; home purchases on such land are in effect long-term leases. The bill seeks to entrench this mechanism, which was designed to keep land in Jewish hands.

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