Cairo – Arab League Urges On Israeli Arabs To Vote

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    A Druze woman casts her ballot for the parliamentary election at a polling station in the northern Druze-Arab village of Maghar January 22, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar AwadCairo – A senior Arab League official has called on Israel’s Arab minority to go out and vote in the Jewish state’s parliamentary election, arguing that doing so will foil “racist” plans to force them to leave their homes.

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    Mohammed Sobeih, who is the pan-Arab organization’s assistant secretary general, claims that Tuesday’s election will be dominated by the extremist right that he says speaks openly of forcing Arab Israelis to pack up and leave.

    His call is unusual for the Cairo-based league, which rarely addresses itself to Arab citizens of Israel. Himself a Palestinian, Sobeih said his Monday call was motivated by fears that underrepresentation of Arabs – about 20 percent of the Israel’s population – would allow parliament to adopt “racist” legislation but still look democratic to the world.


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    sighber
    sighber
    11 years ago

    And it’s not racist to force Jews to leave their homes?

    yaakov doe
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    yaakov doe
    11 years ago

    He should have said that they should take the opportunity to vote becauise Israel is one of the very few places where Arabs can vote in an honest election and actuallyhave a role in a democracy.