Summary
The Israeli commission established after the October 2000 killings, whose September 2003 report, in Chapter 10 of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, was the first by an official Israeli body to acknowledge that creating Israel as a Jewish state had inherently led to unequal treatment of Palestinian citizens (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.284).
Details
- Its introduction framed ‘48 Palestinians as an “indigenous minority” whose feelings of injustice were “fed by the obvious existence of collective rights for the Jewish [people]” (PDF p.284); its conclusion offered only vague recommendations and did little to improve conditions (PDF p.284).