rylah
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Update on recent Samir Kuntar's fan-club demands:
- Appointments - head of Interior and Finance committees
- Political Arrangement: 2 State Solution based on '67 lines
- Cancellation - Nationality Law and privileges for ex-military
- Infrastructure - Arab city, Arab university, Arab hospital
- Budget - $18 billion for the Arab community
- Legislation - Basic Law of Equality, reinforcing the Basic Law of Dignity and Liberty.
- War on Crime - govt decision to eradicate crime in Arab settlements
- Employment - establishment of industrial zones in Arab settlements
What is interesting to me is what people’s concerns, which don’t reported on much outside of Israel. Crime and community investment seem to feature in several of their points.
Crime and community investment...
They came to President Rivlin with Osama Sa'adi who's extended family member, a young pregnant woman was murdered at their wedding only 2 weeks ago, reaching more than 60 fatalities due to family disputes since the beginning of the year, just in the Sa'adi family alone. So they came to turn the blame on the govt, which they are not even prepared to join.
MK's Aiman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi opened with accusation of racism, and openly stated they would do anything to overthrow PM Netanyahu. Ahmad Tibi closed with "we are not citizens in this state, we are the owners" and as if apologized to their electorate, explaining the only reason they even give a recommendation for the assembly is because "we will do anything to overthrow Netanyahu".
Then Mansour Abbas, of the Islamic Movement talked about the "sickness" that needs to be cured,
in that the Waqf should be allowed to apply all over the land, swiftly mentioning the Al Aqsa mosque "status quo".
Coyote, they demanded to head the Finance committee, which includes Defense budget,
and the Interior committee which is responsible for all infrastructure planning, border control, and local government. That's only for a recommendation to the President to assemble a govt, and just the 1st of the demands on the list.
The $18bil community budget demand, so that You have some context, is to a party that promised to take $300mil from the Orthodox Education as a solution to the housing problem.
That's just racket bordering insanity.
With all these demands and much more, they're not talking about joining Blue and White to form coalition with the 3 IDF generals, so what do they provide in the current equation?
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