OLMERT: ARABS SUFFER ‘INTOLERABLE’ DISCRIMINATION
COMMENTARY ARCHIVES, 13 Nov 2008
"For sixty years there has been discrimination against Arabs in Israel. The discrimination is built-in and intolerable," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Wednesday at a session of the Knesset committee that is investigating why Arab citizens have not been incorporated into the public service.
According to Army Radio, MK Ahmed Tibi, chairman of the committee, proposed establishing an apparatus to supervise the incorporation of Arabs into the Israeli public service.
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