The Association of Arab Lawyers decided yesterday to sue 75-year-old Mayor Dizengoff of Tel Aviv for allegedly calling Arabs “savages.”
Mayor Dizengoff, addressing the Municipal Council on Sunday, denied he had used the term against the entire Arab people, declaring he used it only in reference to those killing innocent and peaceful Jews.
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