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During the 2009 election campaign, Liberman advocated transferring Israeli Arabs (1.5 million citizens) to a future Palestinian state in exchange for new West Bank Jewish settlements. As Foreign Minister, at home and abroad, he voices the same idea - an illusory two-state solution based on mass ethnic cleansing.
In early 2010, deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon suggested a land for peace deal, involving northern Israeli towns and villages ("the triangle") for new West Bank settlements, coming anyway because they're planned.
In addition, other Israeli officials showed open hostility to Israeli Arabs, including Internal Security Minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, caught on film using the term "Araboosh," highly derogatory slang for Arab, similar to calling Jews "kikes" or Blacks "niggers."
On July 2, 2009, Housing Minister, Ariel Atias, advocated for preventing Arab Israeli dispersion in various parts of the country, saying: "I see (it) as a national duty to prevent the spread of a population that, to say the least, does not love the State of Israel." Speaking to the Israel Bar Association, he stressed that "populations that should not mix are spreading (to Jewish areas) I don't think appropriate."
The term "demographic threat" is used to further government policy favoring separatism and exclusivity, rather than assuring equal rights for all citizens. As a result, Jewish only cities have been created, like Nevatim and Habahadim in the Negev, areas for military use with only Jewish housing.
On July 26, 2009, settler Rabbi Dov Lior called for Judaizing Nazareth Illit, saying: "....much like in Hebron, it takes a determined Jewish community to transform an area that has always been Jewish and that is currently inhabited by Arabs, into an area of emerging Jewish life and Jewish revival." No matter that its residents lived there for centuries.
For decades, extremist Jews targeted the city of Umm Al-Fahem. On February 10, 2009, the day of state elections, ethno-nationalistic Jewish National Front leader (and member of the banned Kach party), Baruch Marzel, planned to supervise ballot collections in the city. Local resistance prevented it, one council member saying "we welcome any other Jewish person who does not wish to expel us." Yet over 3,000 security personnel protected their racist demonstration against the city's Arabs, supporting it by showing contempt for its non-Jewish citizens.
Similar incidents are commonplace, including in Rahat, Israel's largest Bedouin city, when provocative right wing extremists marched in protest (on July 26, 2009) against "illegal" construction. The irony is galling - Arabs prevented from building legally, but sanction illegal West Bank settlement construction, at the same time "Death to Arabs" graffiti is openly displayed, not banned or removed throughout Israeli towns and cities.
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