PM Netanyahu: "There can be no discrimination against Israeli Arabs."
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued the following statement today
(Thursday, 20 November 2014):
"There can be no discrimination against Israeli Arabs. We must not
generalize about an entire public due to a small and violent minority. The
vast majority of Israel's Arab citizens are law-abiding and whoever breaks
the law – we will take determined and vigorous action against him. In the
framework of the draft nationality law that I will submit to the Cabinet on
Sunday, we will enshrine the full equality before the law of every citizen
regardless of religion, race or sex alongside ensuring Israel's identity as
the national state of the Jewish People; there is no contradiction between
the two and I will not allow these two basic principles to be undermined."
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