Israelis should listen to their president before more Arabs die

Israel is home not only to Jews – but to Arabs like Kheir Hamdan, ‘killed in cold blood’ by police

Columnist Venetia Rainey

It should be a simple formula: all citizens of a state should be treated equally. Except that, as has been proved across the world, some are regularly more equal than others.

In Israel, where Jews and non-Jews - who comprise 20 per cent of the population - have long struggled to find a democratic national equation that affords all citizens the same rights, this issue has recently been thrown into sharp relief.

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Venetia Rainey is a Middle East correspondent for TheWeek.co.uk based in Lebanon where she works for the national English-language paper, The Daily Star. Follow her on Twitter @venetiarainey.