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Palestinian Journalists Visit Knesset
(Media Line-Ynet News) Benjamin Joffe-Walt and Arieh O'Sullivan - Prominent Palestinian reporters and editors joined a debate at Israel's Knesset on the nature of Israeli democracy Tuesday. Israeli Arab legislator Ahmed Tibi traded verbal spars with Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, saying, "We are against Zionism." Ayalon responded that Israel was a merit-based democracy and challenged Tibi that his acceptance to attend a prestigious Israeli medical school, which Ayalon had not been accepted to, was proof. "Equal rights also prescribe equal obligations," Ayalon said. "It is a double standard that Arabs would not accept Israel as a Jewish state even as a minority. As Jewish minorities we paid allegiance to Islamic countries. We were loyal to the country whether it was Christian or Muslim."