re israel an apartheid state not quite in article spam maths adelaide edu au jaskew spam maths adelaide edu au joseph askew writes in article srg cinnj early bird think com shaig think com shai guday writes in article spam maths adelaide edu au jaskew spam maths adelaide edu au joseph askew writes if you examine these i am sure you will discover that the arab party member did not have the power base that his jewish counterpart had right arabs have been voting in israel for how long and in all that time not one arab ever gained enough of a personal following to get his fellow party members to put in a ministry this is about as likely as sprouting wings and flying to rio what basis do you have for explaining this odd failure you seem very confident that you are right exactly how do you know why are you sure it has nothing to do with how long they have been voting as much as how they have been voting pick up a list of the labor parties proposals for mk prior to the election and pay attention to the order correlate this with the number of arab party members eligible to vote in party elections further correlate this with the voting results from arab areas lo and behold you will discover that israeli arab labor party members did not band together unanimously or en large for a select group of arab candidates this problem is further exacerbated by the rifts between israeli arabs some claim membership to right wing parties while others vote for parties that do not pass the minimum cutoff i worked within the labor party during the late s elections not this last one as a volunteer and was privy to the voting results that were returned from the local delegates elected at the time the system was structured differently but it did not cease to amaze me that there was no massive effort to lobby for arab reps by their own delegates exactly what basis do you have for saying this when the labour party has never put an arab into a cabinet post and insists its coalition members do the same why and on what basis are you reassuring me in the face of years of discriminatory practise quite simply if all eligible arab voters became members of the labor party and voted they would be able to command more than of the delegates this is a power base that can not be ignored especially when they are not ranked high in the party once again due to lack of political power i have seen how the labor party works from the inside and my experience has been that as in most political situations the mks act out of their own self interest and to answer your question i broke with labor because i felt that they were heeding too much to the right wing and ultra orthodox coalition members from the other front july translation of ha aretz article racism in the knesset this attitude which until recently had not even aroused criticism being so natural and so deeply embossed upon people s hearts holds that there are knesset members who despite having been elected by tens of thousands of votes are not entitled to be full partners in the body which represents the people of israel we are not speaking here of political discrimination which would be bad enough in itself but of racial discrimination the proof one of the compromises proposed was that mk mahamid an arab yigal should be replaced by tamar gojanski a jew yigal from the same party it was not the member s party which was considered unfit but his race fair enough my take on the matter and i will admit to the possibility that this might be seen differently is that this was a dummy argument if he was sitting on the committee then someone else obviously would not be in drumming up support for his seat mk would not be averse to using this argument or it could be used on his behalf as to the proof presented in this article i would find it very interesting to know who proposed the compromise along with a followup describing how the matter stands was resolved let me just take this opportunity to say that i deplore such actions and groundless justifications a test of self confidence by gid on levi ha aretz july but not to worry even now the jewish mind is contriving devices the new committee chair roni milo has already announced that he will set up subcommittees aplenty for his committee thus he will decide where it is permissible for mahamid to participate and where not a solution such as this could by the way also have been adopted for the rest of the committees thereby completely eliminating the fear of state secrets being leaked to the enemy and removing the stain of discrimination from the knesset for the record roni milo is a brash mk self described from the likud note not labor quite frankly i don t think anything he would say could surprise me annoy and aggravate yes surprise no do you accept that as documentation yes i do and thank you for providing it i would be most interested in knowing how things turned out anyone shai guday stealth bombers os software engineer thinking machines corp the winged 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