A committee of 11 Arab heads of local councils have completed a memorandum to Premier Yitzhak Rabin calling for full civil rights for all Israeli Arabs. The memorandum, which underwent several changes before it was approved late last week at a meeting in the Galilee village of Umm-el-Fahem, had at one stage called for a binational state. The reaction to this in Israel was so strong that the completed memorandum eliminates any mention of a binational state but does refer to the Arab nation.
The major specific demand contained in the memorandum is that all previous land expropriations be cancelled and that there no longer be any confiscations of Arab land in the future.
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