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Not just Zoabi: Other 'Israeli Arab' MK's also cuddling with Hamas

What a surprise.... Hanin Zoabi is not the only 'Israeli Arab' MK to have met with Hamas.

Masud Ganaim and Ibrahim Sarsur visited the home of Hamas parliamentary speaker Aziz Dwaik, 64, to offer their support after he was released from an Israeli prison in June 2009. Dwaik was arrested again on Thursday.

Ganaim is on the left of the picture at the top of this post. Sarsur is the third one from the left. There will be another picture of them below.

After his release, and several days prior to Zoabi's visit, the Hamas leader met with Ganaim and Sarsur as well as former Rahat council head and senior official in the Islamic Movement's northern branch Jumaa Qsasi.

The MKs are claiming the meeting was legitimate as the people concerned were "political figures fighting against the occupation." MK Ganaim said, "We visited the house together with several other members of the Palestinian council. Hamas was legally and legitimately elected in what the whole world admitted were just elections and we went to visit the officials after they were released from jail."

Referring to claims they were in contact with figures who were jailed for aiding terror, Ganaim said: "As political figures they should never have been arrested. Our arrival there was not in violation of the law. I, as a Knesset member or a private person, am allowed to visit a person who was wrongly arrested. It has never been proven they were involved in the alleged activity. They have a right as occupied individuals to fight for life in dignity."

Likud MK and chairman of the Knesset house committee Yariv Levin said in response: "The Arab MKs are competing who is the greatest traitor and terrorist sponsor while using the weakness of the legal system. The Attorney General must take a firm hand and put an end to the parade of MKs spitting in the State's face and protect Israel and the Knesset from the terror sponsors amongst us."

And you wonder why Yisrael Beiteinu called for a loyalty oath in the last election?

Labels: Ibrahim Sarsur, Israeli Arabs are a fifth column, Masud Ganaim

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:52 AM