Israel passes new law dividing Christian and Muslim Arabs

Posted on: Wed, 02/26/2014 - 17:59 By: Tom Swiss

Congratulations to the Israeli government in finding yet another way to discriminate. Good ol' divide and conquer.

New law dividing Christian, Muslim Arabs legalizes inequality | +972 Magazine

According to the bill’s sponsor, Likud MK Yariv Levin, Christians are “our natural allies, a counterbalance against the Muslims who want to destroy the state from within.” Levin, an outspoken opponent of the establishment of a Palestinian state (like other fellow MKs in Likud and the Jewish Home party) also emphasized that he refuses to call Christian citizens “Arabs.” “I’m being careful about not calling them Arabs because they aren’t Arabs,” he told the Israeli daily Ma’ariv a few weeks ago, despite the fact that the large majority of them are, in fact, Arabs, and many identify as part of the Palestinian nation.