LETTER: Israel’s diverse new government will disappoint critics
16 June 2021 - 19:36
As a postscript to recent correspondence, the new government in Israel must be a big disappointment to those who insist on calling it an “apartheid state”; not that anything will stop them.
Issawi Frej is Arab and Muslim and used to work for the Peace Now movement. Now he’s Israel’s minister for regional co-operation. Pnina Tamano-Shata is black: the Mossad rescued her, along with thousands of other Ethiopian Jews, from hunger and persecution when she was a small child. She’s the minister for immigration & absorption...
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