Wednesday, September 11, 2002

Israel Strips Citizenship From Arab Suspect
An Israeli Arab accused of aiding a suicide bomber was stripped of his citizenship today by Interior Minister Eli Yishai, the first time such a measure has been taken against an Israeli accused of a security offense.

The suspect, Nihad Abu Kishk, has been indicted on charges of membership in the militant group Hamas and driving a suicide bomber to Kfar Sava for an attack last year in which a doctor was killed. The Interior Ministry said he had not been convicted.

Civil rights advocates called Mr. Yishai's move an act of discrimination against Israel's one million Arab citizens, noting that no Israeli Jew convicted of a serious security offense had ever been stripped of citizenship.

"The minister's approach is that the citizenship of the Arabs is second class," said Dan Yakir, a lawyer for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/10/international/middleeast/10JERU.html

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