Palestinian and Israeli fans clash
By James M. Dorsey
A soccer brawl in Israel's politically most loaded derby and an alleged subsequent raid by the Israeli military on the offices of Israel's foremost Palestinian soccer club reflects a hardening of the Israeli-Palestinian divide as Israel debates legislation that would emphasize the Jewish national rather than the democratic nature of the state - a move that would effectively deprive Israeli Palestinians of their identity as both Israelis and Palestinians as well as of their equal rights.
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