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From: kubic@reed.UUCP (Kubic)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Israeli Discrimination
Message-ID: <360@reed.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Sep-83 15:35:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: reed.360
Posted: Thu Sep 22 15:35:44 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Sep-83 22:28:30 EDT
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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The Israeli government does not discriminate on race
officially, instead they have a found a far more subtle
method of discrimination - the military service.
In Israel in order to enjoy all the public sector benefits
such as the right to housing in the jewish (ie the better
neighborhoods) sections of town, welfare, jobs, medical
benefits, telephone lines, and almost any other conveniance
that Americans are used to you have had to serve in the
Israel Defense Force(IDF).
However, arabs are not allowed to serve, and thus either
are completely excluded from these benefits, or have a very
hard time procuring them anywhere near the quality, and
quantity level, of the Israelis.
Further more the West Bank Arabs are consistantly having their
lands confiscated, this is not land kept for purposes of 
beauty, but this land is their lifeblood. The land that Arabs
are farming for a living one day is the site of a future
settlement for the Gush Emunim the next.
The list of such policies goes on and on, all in the name
of "national securtiy", the most blatent of which is the
newly enstated "tortur" policy on the West Bank. This is
a straightforward policy of harrasment of West Bank residents
by the West Bank military command, a policy the IDF is proud
of.  One of the best examples is in the case of the West Bank
University (Bier Zeit), at the U the administration is forced
to keep the doors to the campus locked after four in the after-
noons, because Israeli patrols have the habbit of wandering onto
campus after classes and beating students up.
Again these are only some the published and documented incidents,
I have lived in Jerusalem for four years and return every year
for a visit, I have friends on both sides of this fence, and to
an extant the Israelis do have a point about Security, but most
my Israeli friends agree that the current attitude toward the
Arabs will do very little to solve this problem.


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