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was a silver earned by Moran Samuel, or religious fundamentalism. But the
39, in the women’s single 2,000-meter BRIEFS majority does not strongly share these PAGES FLIP
event. She trains with coach Paula Gri- feelings. Recently, I visited Acre, a
zetti at the Daniel Rowing Center in continued from previous page scene of recent rioting, with an old city
Tel Aviv. that is 95% Arab. Residents told me
Israel’s 33-member Paralympics VISIONS OF LIFE they attributed the unrest more to the
team (15 men, 18 women) competed in FOR ISRAEL’S ARABS disaffection of local youngsters than
11 sports: athletics, badminton, boccie, Which Middle Eastern country offers some bold, political statement.
goalball, paracanoeing, power lifting, the best life for Arabs? Take any mea- Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Netanyahu’s in- ZOOM-IN
rowing, shooting, swimming, table sure – democratic representation, wom- tellectual forebear and hardly a shrink-
tennis and wheelchair tennis. en’s rights, lack of corruption, freedom ing violet when it came to Jewish
According to the International of speech, the protection of sexual mi- self-determination, wrote: “All of us,
Paralympic Committee, 10 types of norities – and Israel comes out on top. all Jews and Zionists of all schools of
impairments make an athlete eligible: While Palestinians have been blocked thought, want the best for the Arabs of
impaired muscle power, impaired pas-again and again from casting a vote Eretz Israel. We want them to prosper
sive range of movement, limb deficien-for over a decade, Israeli Arabs have both economically and culturally. We INTERACT 
cy, leg length difference, short stature, made it to the ballot box four times envision the regime of Jewish Pales-
hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision im-in the last two years. In June, their ef- tine as follows: most of the population
pairment and intellectual impairment. forts produced an Arab minister in the will be Jewish, but equal rights for all
Classification systems differ by cabinet. Arab citizens will not only be guaran-
sport. Some Paralympic sports are de- A portion of Israel’s Arab popu- teed, they will also be fulfilled.” (Jake
signed for athletes with one eligible lation is indelibly hostile to the state, Wallis Simons, Spectator - UK)
impairment type. Goalball, for exam-cleaving to Palestinian nationalism
ple, is only for athletes with a vision The Jewish News is
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In the 2016 Rio Paralympics, the
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