'The Promised Land' Tag

• Liberman’s “loyalty law”: an effort to push Arabs out of the Knesset

  January 3, 2010

  The Knesset’s ministerial legislative committee is about to vote today on Israel Beitenu’s (Avigdor Liberman’s party) “loyalty law”, which will change the oath all MK’s take at the beginning of each Knesset term, from swearing loyalty to “the State of Israel and its laws,” to swearing loyalty to the State of Israel as a “Jewish [...]

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• Supreme Court Chief Justice: Israeli practices in West Bank must not be compared to Apartheid

  January 2, 2010

  Israeli Supreme Court ruled this week that the IDF has no legal basis for permanently forbidding the use of highway 443 by Palestinians. Highway 443 is a popular shortcut through the West Bank from highway 1 and the northern entrance to Jerusalem. When it was build – on confiscated Palestinian land – the state declared [...]

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