Israeli-Arab MK calls for boycotting Israel, says entire country is 'occupied'
At the World Social Forum in Montreal, Israeli-Arab MK Basel Ghattas said all of Israel is 'occupied' and called for a
boycott to be applied to the entire country.
The MK from Balad, one of the parties making up the Joint List, called
Israel an oppressive, racist and apartheid state, saying he is
pessimistic that there will be peace soon and international sanctions
were the most effective way to combat Israel.
“The only way for
this society to change is the way of South Africa … international
pressure, international sanctions, saying one basic elementary thing:
Justice for Palestine,” he stated. “Without boycotts and sanctions,
Israel will not do and comply with international law.”
Ghattas
said international pressure is “the only mechanism Israel is afraid of,”
and the only way “to force Israel to comply with international law.”
“I
can promise you one thing, that it will not take time like in South
Africa for Israel to change. Israelis are very connected to the world
and very sensitive to the world and once serious action is taken by the
international community, Israel will obey,” he argued.
Ghattas
added that “BDS [boycott, divestment and sanctions] and popular
movements are the major and the most elementary step that have to be
taken in order to make governments and international bodies held
accountable.”
The Joint List MK argued that the “occupation” and
is not only of the West Bank but that all of Israel is “settler
colonialism” and an “apartheid regime.”
“When we say colonial
settlers … this is the right description for Israel as a whole, Israel
dominating what was called Israel in the 1967 borders and all the other
areas that were in the 1967 war occupied by Israel. We, as Palestinian
citizens that have Israeli citizenship after 1948 are still victims of
this colonial settler regime,” he said.
At another point in the
speech, he said that when it comes to the “apartheid regime, the
differentiation as if inside 1967 borders [or out] – this
differentiation does not exist, actually. Perhaps in some aspects the
level … of the racism or apartheid is different, but the same colonial
settler apartheid reality is all over Palestine.”
All of Israel, Ghattas argued, has been taken over by “settlers.”
Never heard of the World Social Forum? Neither had I. But it sounds like it ought to be renamed the World Conference of Anti-Semites.
Ghattas made the statements last week at the World Social Forum in
Montreal, which is meant to be a far-left alternative to the annual
World Economic Forum in Davos. The Canadian federal government revoked
its partnership with the forum, because of anti-Semitic content,
policies and promotional materials, including excluding Jewish Israelis
and supporters of Israel and a session blaming worldwide terrorism and
imperialism on Zionists, which was promoted with a caricature featuring
classic anti-Semitic imagery of a hook-nosed man with forelocks, a beard
and a black hat controlling Uncle Sam. The session was later canceled
and the caricature removed from the website.
And Israel allows this anti-Semite to serve in its Knesset. What is wrong with us?
Much more on Sabeel, which sponsored Ghattas' appearance at this conference,
here and
here.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Balad, Basel Ghattas, BDS, Israeli Knesset, Israeli-Arab
Tzipi and Buzi sing something stupid
With apologies to the Hebrew-impaired, this was too good not to share.
Let's go to the videotape.
Heh.
Labels: Balad, Binyamin Netanyahu, Jewish Home party, Knesset elections 2015, Labor party, Likud party, Meretz, Naftali Bennett, Tzipi Livni, Yitzchak Herzog
Arab party seethes over campaign video
I'm sure that most of you recall the name of
terror supporting MK
Hanin Zoabi. Once again, she's running for the Knesset. And Likud MK Danny Danon has released a video to try to stop her. The video is in Hebrew, but there's a link below with some of it translated into English.
Let's go to the videotape.
Zoabi's Balad party has vowed to file a complaint with the police over Danon's video, calling it incitement. More
here.
Labels: Balad, Danny Danon, Hanin Zoabi, Knesset elections 2015
'Israeli Arab' soccer team pays tribute to traitor Azmi Bishara
Many of you might recall former Balad MK Azmi Bishara who fled the country and resigned from the Knesset after it was discovered that he
helped Hezbullah spot rockets during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. On Saturday, the soccer team in the 'Israeli Arab' town of Bnei Sakhnin - which is part of Israel's national league and plays games against teams from all over the country -
paid tribute to Bishara, prompting calls to suspend the team from the league.
At the beginning of the Bnei Sakhnin vs. Hapoel Tel Aviv game, the team
held a ceremony thanking a wealthy man from Qatar for contributing $2
million to the team.
Balad party representatives accepted the award, mentioning Bishara’s name.
Bishara founded Balad and was an MK in the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th Knessets.
He
fled Israel in 2007 while under investigation for passing information
to Hezbollah during the previous year’s Second Lebanon War. He
currently resides in Doha, where he is the director of a think tank and
is reportedly close to Qatar’s royal family, a major sponsor of Hamas.
Fans
in the stands Saturday night waved banners reading “Jerusalem is
ours,” with an illustration of the Temple Mount wrapped in a keffiyeh,
and “The police are whores.”
Earlier this week, there were violent clashes between Muslims and police on Temple Mount.
I'm wondering what HaPoel Tel Aviv did during the 'ceremony.' In any event, Israel's 'Football Association' is claiming they were tricked.
The Football Association said Bnei Sakhnin asked only to give
certificates of honor to the team’s sponsors and did not mention
Bishara, and the association will put the team’s management on
disciplinary trial.
FIFA and UEFA rules do not allow soccer teams to mix politics and soccer.
Hmmm.
Labels: Azmi Bishara, Balad, Israeli Arabs are a fifth column, soccer
Report: Kerry's friends in Qatar threatened to expel Meshaal if he accepted the cease fire
If we didn't have enough reasons to bar US Secretary John FN Kerry from interfering with our affairs until now, we may have a huge one. As you might recall, Kerry pushed to
replace Egypt with Qatar and Turkey as the intermediaries between Israel and Hamas. Now, it turns out that Qatar may have brought about the resumption of Hamas rocket fire on Israel by
threatening Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal with expulsion from the country if he agreed to Egypt's cease fire proposal.
The Fatah source added that Qatar threatened to expel
Qatar-based Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal, saying it would "force
him to leave," if Hamas agreed to the Egyptian truce proposal in its current structure.
Indeed Hamas rejected the proposal last week, with Mashaal saying "we want serious negotiations that lead to an end of the aggression on Gaza and granting the Palestinian demands."
The new revelation would appear to lend credence to reports
Tuesday that the breach of the ceasefire was in fact orchestrated by
none other than Mashaal.
An unnamed security source told Walla! the initial rocket
salvo on Be'er Sheva was ordered directly by Mashaal, who reportedly
bypassed Hamas's "military wing", the Al-Qassam Brigades, and ordered a
specially-assigned unit of Hamas operatives answerable directly to him
to launch the attack.
The source claimed Mashaal was aiming to sabotage negotiations for a long-term truce in Cairo, which were not going his way.
A senior Hamas source last week urged a different nation to replace Egypt as intermediary in the talks, labeling Egypt "the basic delaying source preventing an agreement."
Hamas may have envisioned Qatar as the replacement, given that
the source called for a new third-party that would help achieve the
terror group's demands, including terrorists releases and a Gaza sea and
airport.
This also puts a very different - and harsher - light on
last week's visit to Qatar by three MK's from the Balad party.
It is worth noting that three Arab-nationalist Balad MKs recently traveled to Qatar,
where they reportedly met the traitor ex-MK Azmi Bishara, who founded
their party before fleeing Israel after passing information to direct
Hezbollah rockets on Israeli citizens.
Kerry, Zoabi and Zahalka should all be exiled together to a desert island. Maybe Bishara would like to join them.
Labels: Azmi Bishara, Balad, Gaza, Hamas, Hamas rockets, Hanin Zoabi, IDF, Jamal Zahalka, John Kerry, Khaled Meshaal, Operation Protective Edge, Qatar
'Zahalka, Zoabi and Bishara met in Qatar. That's not the beginning of a joke. That really happened!'
MK's on Israel's Right are calling for the Balad party to be investigated and banned from the Knesset after MK's Jamal Zahalka, Hanin Zoabi and Bassel Ghattas traveled to Qatar for 'media appearances' and to meet with
exiled former Balad party MK Azmi Bishara.
On Sunday, a Balad spokesman said the party's three MKs, Jamal Zahalka, Haneen Zoabi and Bassel Ghattas, went to Qatar for media appearances, though they appeared on the Qatari news channel Al-Jazeera several times from Israel in recent weeks.
The spokesman also did not confirm or deny reports they met with Balad founder Azmi Bishara, who fled from Israel and resigned from the Knesset in 2007 as he was under investigation for giving information to Hezbollah during the Second Lebanon War.
[Transportation Minister Yisrael] Katz said that he amended the law to make it illegal for people who support terrorism to run for the Knesset and he had Bishara and Balad banned from running, via the Central Election Committee, but the Supreme Court overturned the vote.
"I am now preparing a new petition against Zoabi and Balad and I hope the Supreme Court won't intervene this time," he added.
Knesset Interior Committee chairwoman Miri Regev (Likud) wrote a letter to Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein asking that he investigate the MKs' visit to Qatar and ban their party.
"It is the right thing to do to investigate MKs Zahalke, Zoabi and Ghattas who traveled to the land of terrorism, especially when we know that all of the terrorism is funded by Qatar's leaders and that the heads of Hamas live in Qatar, where they are defended," Regev wrote.
"There is legal precedent for this in Israel. We cannot forget former MK Bishara, who was a traitor to the state and lived in Qatar, the shelter for terrorists," Regev added.
MK Alex Miller (Yisrael Beytenu) said he plans to complain to the Knesset Ethics Committee about the Balad MKs, in order to examine who paid for their trip to Qatar.
On Sunday, the Balad spokesman said the MKs paid for their own trip.
"Three Balad MKs visiting the terrorism sponsor Qatar, which funds Hamas, and their meeting with the fugitive spy Azmi Bishara, is further proof of their activity that is hostile to the State of Israel, which they are supposed to represent," Miller said.
Last month, Zoabi was banned from all Knesset activities except voting for six months after she made
statements in support of Hamas.
The only way to stop this behavior is to ban from the Knesset the parties that do it. There's a law on the books that allows the Central Elections Committee to ban parties that don't accept Israel as a 'Jewish and democratic state,' but the only time the Leftist Supreme Court has ever upheld the ban was when it was invoked against Rabbi Meir Kahane HY"D (May God Avenge his blood) and his Kach party, which was claimed to be anti-democratic.
Labels: Azmi Bishara, Balad, Gaza, Hamas, Hanin Zoabi, Israeli Arabs are a fifth column, Jamal Zahalka, Qatar
Why the Knesset needs a loyalty oath: Zoabi says Israel responsible for Burgas terror attack
Balad MK Hanin Zoabi, who was a passenger on the Mavi Marmara terror ship two years ago, claims that
Israel is responsible for the Burgas terror attack.
"Israel is not a victim, and even when civilians are killed, the occupying Israeli policy is to blame," Channel 10 quoted Zoabi as saying.
"If there was no occupation, no repression and no blockade, then this wouldn't have happened," she said during an interview at Haifa's Gordon College.
According to Channel 2, Zoabi also came out against Israel's efforts to have the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics remembered with a moment of silence during the opening ceremonies of this year's London Olympics.
"Why don't they commemorate the Palestinians that Israel murdered," Channel 2 quoted Zoabi as saying. "If Israel would say that it recognizes the injustice it has done to Palestinians, then it would also be logical to ask the world to remember all the sides. But it is hypocritical to continue to bring up the victims of 40 years ago, while Israel wants to hide the victims of recent years."
And this creature sits in the Knesset....
Labels: Balad, Hanin Zoabi, Israeli Knesset
'Israeli Arab' MK meets with Hamas
During the course of a raid on a Hamas installation in Tulkarm in December, the General Security Service found a bonus: Photos of an 'Israeli Arab' MK meeting with senior Hamas members. Yes, of course, that gushing, smiling woman is MK Hanin Zoabi, who, as you may recall, was a passenger on the Mavi Marmara eighteen months ago and got off Scot free.
And she's
quite proud of her actions.
Zoabi confirmed that she had met with Dwaik and Saleh in December: "The military shouldn’t be conducting these raids, but rather put an end to the occupation," she said Thursday.
"About 20 people took part in that meeting and the Shin Bet gave ne no trouble about it. Why should they? The entire world recognizes Hamas now and I think it's time Israel did so as well. We don't consider Hamas to be a terror organization," she said.
This is a member of the Israeli Knesset, not the 'Palestinian' one.
What's even more disturbing is the lack of reaction to Zoabi's latest provocation. Both
Arutz Sheva and
YNet leave the unsatisfying impression that only the Right's MK's care enough to blast Zoabi. No one from the Likud is quoted. No one from any of the religious parties. One low ranking MK each from Yisrael Beiteinu and Kadima is quotes. And it is left to Kadima MK Yoel Hasson to point out why the 'Israeli Arabs' won't be missing anything if Zoabi is expelled from the Knesset and placed on trial for treason. This is from YNet.
MK Yoel Hasson, chairman of the Kadima faction, added: "Zoabi has long since forgotten who her public is – she has abandoned them from preliminary action on behalf of various terror groups."
In light of her involvement in the Marama and the photos depicting her with Hamas officials, he added, "I find it deeply disconcerting that she is still serving as an Knesset member in Israel."
Zoabi doesn't belong in the Knesset. She belongs in jail.
Labels: Balad, Hamas, Hanin Zoabi, Israeli Arabs are a fifth column, treason
Israel's fifth column supports a combination of 'negotiations' and 'resistance'
If any of you have any doubt that much of the 'Israeli-Arab' population is anything other than a fifth column within the state of Israel, perhaps reading their own words will dispel those doubts.
The Balad party is an 'Israeli-Arab' party in the Knesset. Its longtime leader -
Azmi Bishara - fled the country ahead of an indictment for helping Hezbullah during the Second Lebanon War. Another Knesset member from the party, Hanin Zoabi, has been in the news lately because she lost many of her Knesset privileges after participating in the Gaza flotilla as a
passenger aboard the Mavi Marmara.
This is a summary followed by a transcript of speeches by the Balad party at an Arafat memorial rally in November. I'll give you the summary and then you can read the entire thing
here. And then, in the spirit of 'we report, you decide,' you can all decide whether 'Israeli-Arabs' are a fifth column you would want in your midst.
On November 12, 2010, the National Democratic Assembly (aka Balad), an Arab party in the Israeli Knesset, held a "National Principles" rally in Umm Al-Fahm, marking the anniversary of Yasser Arafat's death for the first time since his death six years ago. The rally was widely covered by Israeli Arab websites, including the site of the Umm Al-Fahm municipality, which posted pictures and videos of the event.
The speakers at the rally glorified Arafat as the uncontested leader of the Palestinian revolution, who never gave up on his principles and wisely combined negotiations with resistance. They blamed Israel for his death and called for an international investigation into its circumstances. The speakers also accused the Palestinian Authority and its head, Mahmoud Abbas, of mishandling the Palestinians' affairs, urging them to stop the security coordination with Israel and to defend the Palestinian nation's rights. One speaker even called the very existence of the Palestinian Authority into question, saying it had failed in its mission.
Speakers stressed that the Israeli Arabs, as an integral part of the Palestinian people and as the strategic reserves of the Palestinian enterprise, would continue to struggle against the Zionist hegemony and to fight the racism it directed against them.
Ayman Suleiman, deputy mayor of Umm Al-Fahm and a member of the Islamic Movement, said that the residents of his town were delighted to host the Balad rally in honor of "the heroic leader, the shahid Yasser Arafat." He called it "a rally of resistance... that plays a direct role in strengthening our collective identity and our rights in this country and over this country, as its original natives."
It should be noted that the establishment of Balad was motivated by its founders' opposition to the Oslo Accords, and that it supports the solution of Israel as a single, bi-national state. [1]
It should also be noted that Umm Al-Fahm is considered a stronghold of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, headed by Sheikh Raed Salah, who is currently serving a sentence of several month's imprisonment in Israel.
The following are excerpts of some speeches held at the rally, as given on the website of the Umm Al-Fahm municipality: [2]
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Azmi Bishara, Balad, Hanin Zoabi, Israeli Arabs are a fifth column
