President Reuven Rivlin spoke out strongly on Tuesday night against recent comments made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others against Arab Knesset members and the Arab public.
At the conclusion of his meeting with the prime minister, Rivlin said that Israel is a Jewish and democratic state and we “must ensure equality of rights and respectful and meaningful discourse with all Israelis.”
Earlier this week, Netanyahu said at a rally broadcast on TV that Knesset members from the Arab Joint List want to destroy the state and that a government in which they are part would be an “existential threat to the State of Israel.”
The president said that these kinds of statements “deepen the already existing divisions” within the state.
“I ask everyone who cares about the State of Israel to stop these ugly statements,” he demanded.
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