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Why is Israel trying to shut down this Palestinian TV station?

For years, Palestine TV has dedicated some programming to their Palestinian brethren in Israel, and it was well-received.
Palestinians watch the signing ceremony of the reconciliation agreement between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, at a coffee shop in Gaza City May 4, 2011. President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday Palestinians were turning a "black page" on division at the ceremony in Egypt to heal a four-year rift between his Fatah movement and Islamist group Hamas. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR2LZ9F

When writer-lawyer Sabri Jiryis wrote in 1968 his research about the 165,000 non-Jews that remained in their country when Israel was created in 1948, he called his book “The Arabs in Israel.”

For many years, the national identity of non-Jewish Arab citizens of Israel has been in flux. They are usually called "Israeli Arabs." Arabs, including those of nearby Jordan, call them 1948 Arabs. But in recent years, they have settled on the term Palestinian citizens of Israel as the agreed-upon identity for themselves. According to the Israeli Statistics Bureau, Palestinian citizens in Israel today number 1.7 million, 20.7% of the state’s 8.3 million citizens.

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