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Ihud Group Appeals to Israel Govt. to Abolish Military Rule for Arabs

January 18, 1962
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A public appeal to the Government to abolish “all discrimination and cancel military rule” in Arab areas, was issued here today by Ihud, the Association for Jewish-Arab Rapprochement. The appeal was signed by three of Israel’s leading academicians: Prof. Martin Buber and Prof. Ernst Simon, of the Hebrew University, and Prof. Yehudah Leon Shereshefsky, of the Technion of Haifa.

The appeal requested the Government “to honor its pledge of complete equality” for the Arabs in Israel. It charged that, in the past 13 years, the Government committed actions “which were bound to give the inhabitants (of the Arab areas) a feeling of second-class citizenship.”

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