There is indeed discrimination in the Knesset. Azmi Bishara, former Arab MK turned traitor in self-imposed exile, continues to draw an Israeli State pension reserved for Members of Knesset. On the other hand, former Knesset parties associated with Meir Kahane, Kach and Kahane Chai, have been banned in Israel and lost all Knesset privileges. For the record, I do not endorse the positions held by these parties. I only want to highlight the Israeli government's blatant hypocrisy in mollycoddling Arab politicians who incite against Israel, consort with her enemies, deny Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, and highlight there own membership in and loyalty to the 'Palestinian Arab Nation'. They are in no way better than Kahane. In no way.

The Arab ideas aimed at the elimination of Israel, which have remained unchanged since its establishment in 1948, are now shared by the Arab citizens of Israel who openly define the establishment of the State, whose prosperity and security, freedom and democracy they enjoy, – "nakbah" – "catastrophe." Their representatives in the Knesset, who swear allegiance to "the State and its laws" as well as the media that speaks for them, demand the elimination of the Jewish character of Israel, and the abolishment of the "Law of Return" which guaranties that the State of Israel is the Jewish Home. They also demand that all its Jewish symbols (flag, emblems, national anthem) should be eliminated, and that it should become "the State of all its citizens," - in other words, it should be prepared to turn into an Arab state as described at : http://xrl.us/bi3hx

Another fine example of failed hasbara, fooling only self .

If you ask Jews, many will say they're still angry at Germany. When was the last time there was Jewish terrorism against German interests? Or against random people "because of Germany"? Or rejection of German-Israeli cooperation in successful ventures? The folks in this article have reaped their own bitter harvest by allowing their leaders to spend money on little other than destruction, and by engaging in random acts that widely preclude their acceptance by other cultures. And here's the piece de resistance: they started it. If any among them really believes any indiginous peoples would have been treated the same had they not incessantly attacked the Yishuv, they are well-buried under the rock that hit them in the head.

The 2000 riots were the Israeli-Arab showing the state that their leader was Yasir Arafat and if he called for an intifada they would head the call. How did they expect the state to react to such a message? Better jobs and greater state benefits. Sorry but as they say in the IT industry garbage in is garbage out.

Wow, what a surprise ... but let me ask you this ... since when did Israeli arabs have faith in the state of Israel, they mourn the creation of our state every Independence day (look it up its called the Nakba) ... I was 14 years old when the 2000 riots began I live in a yishoov up north where my car was stoned by local arabs driving on the aco zfat highway .... the funny thing is ... Arabs in Israel always complain and complain and complain, if they hate it so much why don't they pack up and move back to Jordan/Lebanon/Egypt/Syria ? oh yea...because arab governments don't give a rats ass about their own people and abuse their power. The freedom the Israeli arabs have in Israel is quickly forgotten once they get international news headlines, but when you hang out with them one on one ... they " LOVEEEEEE " Israel ... most of them are leeches, who would kill as many jews as the can if they had the chance, the few that actually value the state live among many who complain, leech and spread hatred ... the fact that our government gives them any consideration is pathetic God save my country please

Time for them to leave then .

Given the extreme violence of the riots at the time that claimed the lives of several Israelis and injured many more, they have some chutzpah to act the victim.

...and as a result, I haven't set foot in an Arab restaurant since then and haven't employed an Arab contractor for work or did not have any business with the Arab sector since then. There is no need to nurture a snake which will ultimately bite you. In 2000 Israeli Arabs proved that they are open to incitement by extremists and take their hatred for Israel and anything Jewish to the streets. They have proven that they have no intention of integrating into the Israeli society and are looking for the right moments to hurt and betray us. My opinion will change only when the Arab minority will NOT traitors like Azmi Bshara, Tibi et al, as their representatives in Israel's parliament. It will change only when they will stop rallying around bloodthirsty racists like Raed Salah and stop helping terrorists infiltrate Israel, plotting their next treason or terror action. They have a LOT to prove until my confidence in them is rebuilt to the same naive level it was before 2000. JEWS ARE ANGRY TOO!

Your post is labelled france, are you just writing from there? Are you a part-time Israeli? Do you enjoy dual citizenship Israeli/French, etc? Maybe yes maybe no. Are you certainly not more, but possibly much less "from Israel" than the Arab (i.e. mostly Palestinian - a term you may not like) Israelis?