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1948 Palestinians, Nazareth churches, Gazans protest Israel 'quiet mosques' bill
2016-11-20
This story is of no interest whatsoever except for the interesting locution 1948 Palestinians, which is apparently the Al Ahram/Egyptian term for Arab Israelis.
[AlAhram] Hundreds of Palestinian Muslims and Christians in Israel and the occupied Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza Strip demonstrated on Friday against a bill to limit the volume of calls to prayer at mosques and churches in Israel.

All Palestinian churches in Nazareth carried the Islamic call for Friday noon prayers for Muslims.

In the southern city of Rahat, more than a hundred 1948 Palestinians held a rally against the government bill, while 500 protested in the north, police said.

In Gaza, which has been under an Israeli siege since 2006,
...Israeli-Egyptian, actually, though clearly Al Ahram doesn't like to admit it. But Egypt built a steel wall around Gaza with American help in 2009, then the 2 km wide (thus far) buffer zone and tunnel-intersecting moat along the border were begun in 2014, along with the occasionally briefly relaxed closure of Rafah crossing...
hundreds of supporters of the Islamist Hamas group that controls the Palestinian territory held a protest march through the Jabalia refugee camp near the enclave's northern border.

Yusef al-Sharafi, a Hamas leader, told the crowd that "this unprecedented Zionist decision is an encroachment on the freedom of Muslims".

"Attempts to ban the Azan (call to prayer) are doomed to fail because of the steadfastness of the Palestinians," he said, reiterating the long-standing Hamas demand that the Palestinian Authority end its security cooperation with Israel.

The bill, which passed the ministerial committee for legislation on Sunday, had been appealed by Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, who demanded another discussion on it before its first parliamentary reading.

Litzman, a member of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, was concerned that the bill could also outlaw the weekly sirens that indicate the beginning of the Sabbath.

The bill, drafted by Moti Yogev and supported by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will now be put on hold until a ministerial committee holds a second vote.

It was drafted allegedly in response to noise from mosques, but would in theory apply to all religious institutions.

The 1948 Palestinians, the vast majority of them Muslim, suffer from discrimination in all aspects of daily life including housing and jobs among other problems.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Need a chapter of the Native American Church of Bob, whose Holy Day is Thursday (sure happy it's Thursday) and the call to swear is Schuls Out For Summer.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-11-20 10:39  

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