21.02.2012                      28.Schwat. 5772

Innenpolitik:

Peres's visit to Nazareth draws mixed response

Institute of higher learning to be built in Arab city; 60 activists protest visit.

President Shimon Peres visited Nazareth on Monday as part of an effort to reach out to the city’s 80,000 Arab residents, and concluded the visit with a historic pledge to set up an institute of higher education – the first of its kind in the city.
His visit drew a mixed response. While the city’s top representatives welcomed the president, a group of around 60 activists waving Palestinian flags arrived from the Balad political party and the Islamic Movement, and staged a protest outside of a municipal cultural center where Peres spoke, as a police helicopter hovered overhead….