A present absentee is a Palestinian who fled or was expelled from his home in Palestine by Jewish or Israeli forces, before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, but who remained within the area that became the state of Israel. Present absentees are also referred to as internally displaced Palestinians (IDPs). The term applies to the present absentee's descendants too.[1]
Present absentees are not permitted to live in the homes they were expelled from, even if they live in the same area, the property still exists, and they can show that they own it. They are regarded as absent by the Israeli government because they left their homes, even if they did not intend to leave them for more than a few days, and even if they did so involuntarily.[2]
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Come on, this government is scum! Forcing Palestinians away from their HOMES and denying their rightful property back to them....... This is insanity and the world cannot allow this oppression of the Palestinians to continue.
ISRAEL IS AN APARTHEID STATE!
Zionism: A group of people has arbitrarily distinguished themselves, through exclusion, as "Jews."And they exclude everyone else.
Palestinian citizens of Israel face widespread systemic discrimination.
And it's not just me saying it - the former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Arabs face deliberate systemic discrimination in Israel's public sector. And it's not just me and Olmert, 55% of Israel's Jewish population and 80% of the Arab population agree according to a poll by the Israel Democracy Institute (see below)
Eighty percent of the Arab population agrees that they are discriminated against in comparison to the Jews, as opposed to just 55% of Jews who agree that the Arab population is indeed discriminated against Some 50% of Jews justify the discrimination against Arabs based on Israel's definition as a Jewish and Zionist state. Israel Democracy Institute - Arab Identity in a Jewish and Democratic State
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says longtime discrimination against Israeli Arabs seeking public service posts deliberate; PM says that complete absence of Arab employees at Bank of Israel 'terrible' In a special parliamentary session on the matter, Olmert said: "It is terrible that there is not even one Arab employee at the Bank of Israel (out of 900 employees) and that in the Israel Electric Company Arabs constitute fewer than 1% of all workers." Olmert: Discrimination against Arabs deliberate
More than 62 percent of Israeli Jewish respondents also said that as long as conflict with the Palestinians continued, the state should not take into account Israeli Arab opinions regarding foreign policy. The study also revealed that almost half of the Jewish Israelis polled would be bothered to have an Arab neighbor. Ha'aretz - Poll: Most Israeli Jews believe Arab citizens should have no say in foreign policy
Dozens of municipal rabbis signed a manifest ordering a halachic ban on selling or renting land and apartments in Israel to non-Jews. The document, which was endorsed by more than 50 national-religious and ultra-Orthodox rabbis working in municipalities across Israel, is slated to be disseminated through the religious press and fliers handed out in synagogues over the weekend. The signatories include rabbis Dov Lior, Shlomo Aviner and Ya'akov Yosef. Most rabbis are public servants working in municipalities and cities across Israel including Eilat, Ashdod, Herzliya, Jerusalem, Kfar Saba, Naharia, and Holon. (...) The rabbis presented various justifications for the ban, including fears of intermarriage and blasphemy. 50 Israeli Government Rabbis issue religious commandment: Do not rent to Arabs
Since 1948, no new Arab towns - apart from Bedouin townships - have been founded, although the Israeli-Arab population has grown at least sevenfold. Many Arab communities were surrounded by areas used for security purposes, Jewish regional councils, national parks and highways, that prevent or block future expansion, the commission said. For all but one of the past five years, Israeli-Arab communities have received less than 5% of government development funding each year, according to the Mossawa advocacy centre. There is no state-funded Arabic language university. BBC News: Q&A: Israeli Arabs
The reasons were set out in graphic form this month when a parliamentary committee revealed that only 1.3 per cent of the company’s 12,000 workers are Arab, despite the Arab minority constituting nearly 20 per cent of the population.
The committee’s report presents a picture of massive under-representation of Arab citizens across most of the public sector, including in government companies and ministries, where the percentage of Arab staff typically falls below two per cent of employees.
Israeli employers prefer not to hire Arabs holding at least an undergraduate degree. A study conducted Kiryat Ono Academy said that 79 percent employers said that they would prefer not to promote Arabs. Arabs hardly ever hired for positions in the stock exchange
Oh, and here's this
In ISRAEL: Dozens of businesses have been asking to receive a certificate attesting that they do not hire Arabs. (translate.google.com)Almost a week since the project launched and dozens of businesses have been asking to get a certificate testifying that they do not hire Arabs. בעל פיצריה מנתניה: אני לא גזען, אני אוהב יותר יהודים Netanya pizzeria owner: I'm not racist, I like more JewsGoogle Translate
The idea of Zionism itself was up until recently, defined by the UN as a racist ideology.
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, "determine[d] that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination".It was only removed after Israel made it a precondition to the Madrid Conference of 1991.
any doctrine of racial differentiation or superiority is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous" and its expression of alarm at "the manifestations of racial discrimination still in evidence in some areas in the world, some of which are imposed by certain Governments by means of legislative, administrative or other measures",
Israel made revocation of resolution 3379 a condition of its participation in the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991.The only practical use of the peace process was to allow Israel more time to build more settlements. 20 years on, they've succeeded so far.
In the lead-up to the Madrid Conference of 1991, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was supporting robust settlement expansion and asking for $10 billion in US loan guarantees.What sort of country has this kind of citizen?
Present absentee
A present absentee is a Palestinian who fled or was expelled from his home in Palestine by Jewish or Israeli forces, before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, but who remained within the area that became the state of Israel. Present absentees are also referred to as internally displaced Palestinians (IDPs). The term applies to the present absentee's descendants too.[1]
Present absentees are not permitted to live in the homes they were expelled from, even if they live in the same area, the property still exists, and they can show that they own it. They are regarded as absent by the Israeli government because they left their homes, even if they did not intend to leave them for more than a few days, and even if they did so involuntarily.[2]
Present absentee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hmmmm I wonder who this could be? LOL