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Proposed Bishara law targets Israeli Arabs
munaeem | 27 April, 2007 02:02
The Israeli campaign gainst Arab Knesset member Azmi Bishara indicated Israel was becoming ore like Arab countries and that its democracy was no longer an oasis
in the midst of the Middle East political desert.
If an Israeli ruling roup succeeded in issuing a new law under the "Bishara bill," it would ecome possible for one lawmaker to dismiss another.
According to Israeli ews reports, the proposed bill would allow a Knesset member to level ccusations against a colleague while the latter was abroad to avoid
resignation, subsequently freezing all the accused lawmaker's assets if
he or she failed to present his or herself in court.
Arabs view such roposals as "providing new tools" against Israeli Arab politicians,
arguing that they were "fascist and anti-democratic; racist and nti-Arab."
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