(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) -The Arab members of the Israeli legislative body, the Knesset, have said that the speech Netanyahu gave in front of US Congress on Tuesday was an attempt at deception.
Netanyahu promoted the idea that the Arabs in Israel share enjoy full democratic rights.
The statement comes at a moment when Netanyahu has led his people in the ugliest form of racism, said Knesset member Mohammed Baraka, who heads the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality.
”Israel is the only country in the world that applies two systems, one which grants precedence to Jews, and another that practices racial discrimination against Palestinians in the 1948-occupied territories,” Baraka said.
He went on to say that those who engage in “occupation, repression, torture, and denial of human and national rights against an entire people for more than sixty years cannot speak about democracy.”
“After the false presentation Netanyahu made last night, some congressmen may have had the misconception that we live in prosperous Switzerland, and not in a neglected city,” added MK Ahmed al-Tibi.
He pointed out that there are forty laws in Israel that discriminate against Arab citizens, who have enjoyed in Israel a ”distorted and incomplete citizenship and live under threat of expulsion and exclusion”.
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