Jerusalem – Palestinians, Israeli Arabs mark ‘Land Day’

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    protest by Israeli Arabs whose property was annexed in northern Israel to expand Jewish communities. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)Jerusalem – Palestinians and Arab citizens of Israel have marked “Land Day,” an annual day of protest against what they say are discriminatory land policies by Israel.

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    About 2,000 protesters waved Palestinian flags and chanted slogans Monday in the northern Israeli town of Deir Hanna. Several hundred also demonstrated in the southern Bedouin town of Rahat and several dozen in east Jerusalem.

    Land Day is marked annually on March 30 and commemorates the day in 1976 when Israeli security forces shot and killed six Palestinians during demonstrations.

    Arab citizens make up 20 percent of Israel’s population. Equality is guaranteed by Israeli law, but many Arabs complain of discrimination.

    This year’s Land Day comes after a bitter election campaign. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of Arabs heading to the polls in “droves.”
    Israeli Arab demonstrators take part in a Land Day rally in the northern village of Deir Hanna March 30, 2015. Land Day commemorates the killing of six Arab citizens of Israel by security forces during protests in 1976 over government land confiscations.  REUTERS/Ammar Awad
    Israeli Arab demonstrators take part in a Land Day rally in the northern village of Deir Hanna March 30, 2015. Land Day commemorates the killing of six Arab citizens of Israel by security forces during protests in 1976 over government land confiscations.  REUTERS/Ammar Awad


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    9 years ago

    Their idea of a day for the Land that they do not have a claim to is not much different than a bum making himself a Toilet Day to show that he still has rights to take a defecation on his day of begging.

    Toilet day is not very interesting and never is a palestinian holiday.

    Cards say that the palestinian flag is just another head value for human regression.

    They do not have much to add to the marketplace or the future.

    lavrenty
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    lavrenty
    9 years ago

    only Israel would a country openly tolerate known 5th column enemies of the state, give them welfare, allow them to serve in parliament and wave the flag of the enemy and worst of all allow them to marry your women and convert to their barbaric religion, unless Israel does what kahane advocated, complete liquidation the entire Zionist experiment will fail and Satmar will be left looking smart.