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Think tank: Israeli Arabs should take part in negotiations with PA

By Yoav Stern, haaretz Correspondent

Tags: Reut Institute, Adalah Center

A position paper published Sunday by the Reut Institute states that Israel must incorporate Arab citizens in its negotiations with the Palestinian Authority and with the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and be prepared for shifting political views within the Arab public.

The position paper submitted by the Reut Institute, an Israeli think tank which advises different government offices, also warns that a change in Arab public opinion could limit the PA representatives in their negotiations with Israel.

The Reut report further recommends bringing up in negotiations a discussion on Israeli Arabs' relationship to the future Palestinian state.

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The report states that "The extent of affinity and connection that Israel would permit its Arab citizens to have with the Palestinian state could have political bearing on the issue of double passports, the right to vote and run for office in the Palestinian parliament, as well as family reunification issues, etc."

The paper also calls for Israel to ensure equal rights to all its citizens, on the basis of the Or commission report on the Israeli Arab riots of October 2000, in which 14 rioters were killed by police. According to the report, ensuring equality would "defuse at least some of the reasons of unrest" among the Arab public.

Last week, Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, voiced its support of a transnational rule over the whole of "historic Palestine," stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean. The center's legal experts are to draft a new constitution in the next few months, which would commit, among other things, to the return of Palestinian refugees.

This marks a new political outlook of the center, which until recently advocated a two-state solution. Adalah denies that last week's statement deviates from its previous position, and maintains that its priority is to ensure human rights.

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1.	World Jews must have their say,as Jewish State	18:48	\|	sam	23/12/07

2.	Until Israeli Arabs accept Israel as a Jewish state they will	20:05	\|	Marwan مروان خوري	23/12/07

3.	It`s not an attitiude "shift". Israeli Arabs are unafraid to expr	20:25	\|	Chaim	23/12/07

4.	corrupt analogies	20:40	\|	a Safadi Palestinian	23/12/07

5.	what kind of press freedom is that?	20:42	\|	Israeli Arab	23/12/07

6.	excellent idea	21:37	\|	curt	23/12/07

7.	Israeli Arabs should be on both sides of the table?!	21:48	\|	McQueen	23/12/07

8.	#5 Are you kidding? This board is anti-Israel central	21:50	\|	McQueen	23/12/07

9.	SAFADI	22:37	\|	JOJO	23/12/07

10.	#5...you think we should allow you to annhilate us	23:46	\|	Israeli Arab	23/12/07

11.	"Grave or suitcase" for Jews in single state.	23:46	\|	Just Cause	23/12/07

12.	history does not begin at points convenient to you	01:50	\|	Ahmed	24/12/07

13.	#4	02:00	\|	danny	24/12/07

14.	Must or must not ?Should not, if at all --get english lessons	03:06	\|	Sal	24/12/07

15.	Israeli Arabs are Palestinians trapped in an unjust delema	08:49	\|	Charlie	24/12/07

16.	Israeli Arabs should negotiate their expulsion from Israel	09:59	\|	Genuine Tosefta	24/12/07

17.	Transnational Rule/Supranational State=synonyms destroy Israel	10:01	\|	Genuine Tosefta	24/12/07

18.	Negotiations by/with Arabs: The options	10:06	\|	Genuine Tosefta	24/12/07

19.	a group of tribes?	13:11	\|	michel	24/12/07

20.	one message	13:15	\|	benton	24/12/07

21.	To uncle Marwan	13:15	\|	Palestinian	24/12/07

22.	To Chaim	13:25	\|	IsraeliArab	24/12/07

23.	To Genuine Tosefta	13:40	\|	Tabarani	24/12/07

24.	YESHA Jewish residents should sit on the Arab negotiating side to	19:15	\|	Genuine Tosefta	24/12/07

25.	In any Arab country Adalah/Reut would be 6 ft underground long ag	19:25	\|	Genuine Tosefta	24/12/07

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