New York Times · 26 January 2001

CP-2001-034

Palestinians who are Israeli citizens weigh the election

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Transcribed from the clipping

“‘As Palestinians who are Israeli citizens, we are already so unequal and so much on the margins. We can’t sit out this election like we all really want to do.’”

Context added by this archive

Souhel Karram, in Nazareth, to Deborah Sontag. He names himself:

a Palestinian who is an Israeli citizen. The paper’s own vocabulary took another twenty years to arrive where this sentence already is.

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"Palestinians who are Israeli citizens weigh the election," New York Times, 26 January 2001. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2001-034. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2001-034

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