לאחר הסיור באום אל־פחם: יו"ר ועדת החינוך ח"כ סוכות : "אם לא נטפל בזה, למדינה הזאת לא יהיה עתיד"

After the tour in Umm al-Fahm: Education Committee Chairman MK Zvi Sukkot attacked the absence of committee members - "If we don't deal with this, this country will have no future" Committee member MK Naama Lazimi: "The state is against Arab society and turned a blind eye when 6 were murdered in 24 hours" Education Committee Chairman MK Zvi Sukkot referred to the tour that took place yesterday in Umm al-Fahm and attacked the committee members who did not go there: "I would expect you to be the first to join my tour. People in this building, who claim to care about children in Arab society, turn a blind eye. You don't come to the tour and don't participate in discussions on the subject. How can it be that only Zvi Sukkot cares about this? Don't you care that the children there are growing up in such a distorted way?" MK Sukkot shared that he receives many requests from the Arab sector, "Come save us," they tell me. "The schools are the ones who published the photos of Sheikh Raed Saleh who came to lecture at the school. They are also not willing to include the police in cooperation programs and the children do not recognize the authority of the police. There is a society here that large parts of it do not recognize the state at all. In my opinion, this is a life mission. If we do not deal with this, this country will have no future," MK Sukkot concluded his remarks. Committee member MK Naama Lazimi replied to him: "Nationalism grows with polarization and inequality. In the Rabin government, when there was an action to reduce dropout rates, it decreased by 40%. The state was there and did not act to cut equalization grants, not in this for Arab society and turned a blind eye when 6 were murdered in 24 hours." MK Lazimi said that the solution is to provide money for education, transportation, training and employment, and added: "A week ago I prevented a cut of one and a half billion shekels for Arab society."