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March 25, 2009

Clashes Follow Far-Right Israeli March in Arab Town
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In other news from Israel, dozens of far-right Israeli activists marched
in Israel’s largest Arab town on Tuesday, setting off a protest from
residents that ended in clashes with Israeli police. Mohammed Baraka, an
Arab member of the Israeli parliament, condemned the march.

Mohammed Baraka: “This attack on the citizens has no other explanation
but that the police are used to hit and fire toward the Arabs, wherever
they are. On the other hand, when an extremist group demonstrates
against our existence, under the name of freedom, they give them the
chance to walk in the streets, protected by 2,500 soldiers and
policemen. But the people who came to defend their houses and their
existence are suppressed by the police in a very horrible way.”



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