'Israeli Arab' MK's attend Hamas victory rally
'Israeli Arab' MK's Hanin Zoabi, Jamal Zahalka and Ibrahim Sarsur
attended a Hamas 'victory rally' in a Galilee village on Friday.
Balad MKs Jamal Zehalka and Haneen Zoabi and United Arab list head Ibrahim Sarsur sang the Palestinian national anthem at a "victory rally" for Hamas that was held Friday in the Kabul Regional Council southeast of Akko.
Palestinian flags draped the event, which was held under the banner "Gaza won." Two thousand people attended the event, which was organized by the Monitoring Committee of the Israeli Arab Leadership. A moment of silence was observed for victims of IDF strikes on Gaza.
Zoabi called upon "the occupier" to do some soul searching following Operation Protective Edge. She referred to the Gazan casualties as the "2000 martyrs who were killed among my people."
"The Palestinian resistance and the entire nation in Gaza defeated the military and political targets Israel set for itself," Zoabi told Ynet. "The struggle of our people prevented [Israel] from achieving its goals and that is the result of the war. Israelis must learn the lesson that no military power can defeat a nation that wants to live."
These people sit in the Knesset! It's long past time for Balad to be banned under the law that bans parties that refuse to accept Israel's Jewish or Democratic nature (the only party ever so banned was Rabbi Meir Kahane's Kach party).
Labels: Hamas, Hanin Zoabi, Ibrahim Sarsur, Israeli Arabs are a fifth column, Jamal Zahalka
Oh my... Arab party MK's join in call for Pollard release
MK's from Israel's Arab parties have
joined in the call for the release of Jonathan Pollard.
MKs took turns calling for Pollard's freedom, including Ibrahim Sarsur of the United Arab List and Dov Henin of Hadash.
“I want to tell the US to free Pollard,” Sarsur said. “He has served
too long. But there are 5000 Palestinians in Israeli jails and some are
serving too long too.”
At the conclusion of the Knesset session,
every faction endorsed a resolution calling upon US president Barack
Obama to commute Pollard's sentence to the 28 years he has already
served. The Arab factions endorsed a different version of the resolution
that also calls for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli
jails and opposes conditioning the releases on Pollard's freedom.
The
two resolutions will be sent to Obama via President Shimon Peres and to
the Senate by Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein. A group of legislators
will deliver the resolutions to US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro.
The
MKs will also deliver a petition for Pollard's freedom. Among MKs from
Jewish factions, the only MKs who have not signed it are three ministers
who deal regularly with the US: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu,
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni.
Netanyahu
welcomed the effort by the MKs but cautioned them that the need to
bring about Pollard's release was unconnected to the reports of American
spying. He vowed to intensify his efforts to bring Pollard home.
I wonder how many more 'Israeli Arab' MK's signed. Ahmad Tibi? Hanin Zoabi?
Hmmm.
Labels: Ahmed Tibi, Binyamin Netanyahu, Hanin Zoabi, Ibrahim Sarsur, Israeli Arab, Jonathan Pollard
MK Ibrahim Sarsur is an anti-Semite
Here's a speech by Knesset Member Ibrahim Sarsur. As you watch this, keep reminding yourself that this anti-Semite is a member of the democratically elected Israeli Knesset.
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip:
Tundra Tabloids via
Will).
Labels: Ibrahim Sarsur, Muslim anti-Semitism
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
State of Israel funded commendations for Mavi Marmara passengers
In his annual report, State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss says that the State of Israel financed commendations to six Israeli Arab passengers on the Mavi Marmara terror ship in 2010. The commendations, which cost a total of NIS 5,000 ($1380), were presented by the Israeli Arab Ta'al party, and were
purchased with moneys received from the State of Israel.
A week after the flotilla, United Arab List-Ta'al Chairman MK Ibrahim Sarsur granted six commemorative plaques worth a total of NIS 5,000 ($1,380) to MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad), Islamic Movement leader Sheikh Ra'ad Salah and others.
That's Salah in the picture at the top (second from left).
According to the report, which examined the state's political party funding, the faction paid NIS 5,000 to buy the brass plaques, for the activists who took part in the flotilla on which IDF soldiers were brutally attacked and nine Turks were killed.
They listed the plaques as an expense aimed at keeping in touch with the party's supporters, as they were given out to well known people who represent an extensive section of the Arab Israeli sector.
The Comptroller noted in the report that the funds should never have been used to purchase the plaques and that their purchase could not be included in the "keeping in touch with the voters" clause as they were given as personal gifts directly to a small number of people. He added that their purchase from the public was illegitimate.
This is a case in which not only were public funds misappropriated, they were also uses to honor a group of people who took part in a flotilla against Israel.
...
MK Sarsur said he was summoned to the State Comptroller's office where he was told that he used the funds contrary to state procedure. "I told them that there was no clause forbidding what we did," the MK told Ynet.
He added that "the flotilla participants took steps in line with social and political activity and their stance is justified, a kind of defense of values." Sarsur stressed that he did not regret his actions.
As long as Israel's Arab community continues to elect the likes of Sarsur and Hanin Zoabi as its representatives to the Knesset, Israeli Jews will continue to be suspicious about which side Israel's Arab take and whether they'd rather live with the 'Palestinians.'
Labels: Hanin Zoabi, Ibrahim Sarsur, Israeli Arabs are a fifth column, Mavi Marmara, Micha Lindenstrauss, Raed Sallah
Israeli MK says 'Obama can go to hell'
An Israeli MK had some
nasty words for President Obama.
"After the exposure of lies from the US, we must say frankly to Obama: You no longer scare us and you can go to hell."
“Obama cannot be trusted. We knew his promises were lies. The time has come to spit in the face of the Americans.”
"...he is no longer wanted in the Middle East and that he can go to hell"
"...world should persuade the US to change its Middle East policies by any means necessary, including by use of economic pressure.”
Is that any way to treat our 'best friend'?
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Ibrahim Sarsur, Islamic Movement in Israel, Israeli Knesset
