Word: israell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passed, the bill would vest in police officers the power to "seize the property" of any organization that has ever "directly or indirectly" received funding from "a terrorist organization, or a corporation which is designed to act, or acts, for the denial of the existence of the state of Israel...
...proposal would extend Israel's blatant disregard for the Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to those Arabs who live within Israel itself as Israeli citizens...
ARABS comprise 18 percent of the population of Israel proper. Israeli budget allocations, however, have never fully acknowledged their existence. As the Jerusalem Post reports, more than half of Arab families in Israel live below the poverty line. Even so, the Israeli government regularly provides Arab towns and villages with as little as one-third of the regular budget allocations and one-tenth of the development funding provided for equivalent Jewish municipalities...
...tortuous nature of that language was hardly unplanned. It is not difficult to imagine the misguided logic by which charitable organizations that fund Arab groups will be defined as acting "for the denial of the existence of the state of Israel...
Besides being a practical matter of the utmost concern for Israel's Arab community, this bill would clearly represent a fundamental violation of civil rights. All that is required for the seizure of property is "reasonable suspicion"--not even a search warrant...