During the Military Rule (1948-1966), the Military Rule itself came to be the sole representative of the state vis-à-vis the country’s Palestinian public. Minister of Foreign Affairs Moshe Sharett went so far as to ask other members of the cabinet to “refrain from responding to Palestinian citizens” who contact them directly “but rather answer only through local military officials.” A letter from the director of the Ministry of Justice Legislation Department clarified that this demand constituted discrimination and that it contradicted “declarations by the government regarding equal rights for all residents.”

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Letter of the director of the Ministry of Justice Legislation Department to the Minister,
March 13, 1950