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Bassam Tawil • August 31, 2018 at 5:00 am
- Palestinian
leaders do not want to see any improvement in the lives of the
Arabs in Jerusalem so that they can continue to incite against
Israel and accuse it of discriminating against its Arab
population.
- Palestinian
leaders and their religious clerics do not want to see Arabs live
a comfortable life under Israel. They are afraid that the world
would see that Arabs can have a good life under Israeli
sovereignty.
- They
are also afraid that Palestinians living under the Palestinian
Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip will start
envying the Arabs living in Israel -- and then demand from their
leaders similar conditions.
(Image source: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Israel/Flickr)
Ramadan Dabash wants to help the residents of his
village of Sur Baher in particular, and east Jerusalem in general,
improve their living conditions. He wants them to receive better
services from the Jerusalem Municipality. The 52-year-old businessman
and social activist, however, has been facing a campaign of threats by
several Palestinian leaders and administrative bodies over his decision
to run in the municipal election, slated for October 2018.
Recently, Dabash announced his decision to run in the
upcoming election at the head of an Arab list called Jerusalem for
Jerusalemites. He has repeatedly made it clear this summer that his
decision is not politically motivated and that his only intention is to
seek improved municipal services for the Arab residents of Jerusalem.
Dabash has also called on Arab voters to end their boycott of the
municipal election because they are the only ones who stand to lose
from such a move.
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