Slippery Slope

Tel Aviv Municipal Council Member, Binymain Babaioff (Shas), asked in a letter to the Mayor, Ron Huldai, and to Moshe Tiomkin, Head of the Municipal Transportation Unit, that special buses will be allocated for immigrant workers and asylum seekers, or alternatively to limit their access to public transportation at rush hour. According to the letter, “since these workers sleep in parks and stairways and do not shower on a daily basis, they have a terrible smell and may spread diseases.”

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UN directives, aid organizations and local testimonies show that the war in South Sudan is still raging and the area is unsafe for civilians. In addition, the new state lacks food and proper infrastructure. Predictions for 2012 are that the situation will get worse. Despite all this, Israel plans to deport by force asylum seekers from South Sudanese back to their country.

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Settlers set a vehicle on fire in An-Nabi Elyas village. The slogan “price tag” was sprayed on a nearby building.

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Public hospitals in Israel have an unofficial policy of separating Jewish women from Arab women in delivery rooms.

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Settlers uprooted about 50 trees near the village Al Janiya in the vicinity of the settlement Talmon.

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The high court of justice approved the IDF decision to demolish part of the home of Qassem al-Mughrabi. In 2008 Al-Mughrabi ran his car into a group of soldiers and civilians standing on a traffic island in the center of Jerusalem. He was fatally shot during the incident.

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Jews punctured the tires of a vehicle owned by an Arab in Kibbutz Maale Gilboa.

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Avigdor Lieberman, deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, directed the ministers in his party, Israel Beiteinu, to refuse to cooperate with the parliamentary committee on integrating Israeli Arabs in Israeli society headed by MK Ahmad Tibi.

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The Israeli Prison Service parole committee decided to cut the sentence of police officer Shachar Mizrahi, who shot and killed Mahmud Gnaim, when the latter tried to steal a vehicle. Mizrahi was charged and convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced (after appealing to the Supreme Court) to 30 months in prison. He will be released in April 2012, instead of February 2013.

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Settlers scared off a group of Palestinians from the village of Mamda, after they ascended to the settlement of Yizhar to protest the uprooting of olive trees near their village.

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