Netanyahu will meet with Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh on Thursday.
Odeh says in a statement that he will discuss issues pertaining to the Arab Israeli housing crisis, budgeting for Arab Israeli government offices and municipalities, and reforms on the planning of Arab cities “which will respond to the painful issue of house demolitions.”
“The government of Israel cannot continue the policy of perpetuating the occupation and denying the establishment of an independent Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel, according to all relevant UN resolutions,” he says. “The peace efforts must be honest, because the Palestinians are entitled to independence and a place in the sun.”
Channel 2 reports that Odeh refused to allow Foreign Ministry representatives into his meeting with the Norwegian foreign minister on Wednesday, saying the “occupation’s representatives will disturb us.”
An unnamed political source terms the incident “crass and ugly.”
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