Gary Fitleberg, December 22, 2004

Arabs enjoy rights in Israel. In fact they enjoy rights they do not have in any of the Arab/Islamist nations such as Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech. Jews enjoy no such right in any Arab land.

Which makes one wonder? One wonders why they stay if conditions are so bad.

Why would they want to end the so-called Israeli "occupation" in favor of one controlled and dominated by the Palestinian Authority/Palestine Liberation Organization (PA/PLO)?

After all the Authority did not get its name for no good reason.

The Avoda Ivrit ("Hebrew Work") Web site on Wednesday removed from the Internet its list of businesses that hire only Jewish workers, after two groups petitioned the Jerusalem District Court to instruct the site to shut down.

The Israel Religious Action Center and the Mossawa Center for Arab Rights in Israel said the site practices illegal discrimination against Arabs and other non-Jews.

The two parties came to an agreement, according to which the list went offline and the site published an apology for posting it in the first place.

The court gave the agreement the status of a court ruling, meaning that if Avoda Ivrit violates the deal, it has in effect violated a court order.

A short time after the agreement was made, however, the list was removed from its original location (www.jewsite.org/avodaivrit/) but was still available online, on the Avoda Ivrit server (www.jewsite.org). The list was removed following a Haaretz Web site article saying it was still online.

I wonder if any Arab or Jewish group such as this one is allowed existence or the right to organize and protest any of the twenty-two Arab/Islamist corrupt dictatorships, human rights violators, ruthless repressive regimes, state supporters of terrorism and tyrannies.

Only in Israel.

Gary Fitleberg is a Political Analyst specializing in International Relations with emphasis on Middle East affairs.

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