'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
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
'Palestinian' MK explains why Israel should expel all its Arabs
And you thought no 'Israeli Arab' MK would be dumb enough to comment on Prime Minister Netanyahu's trial balloon about leaving revenants in a 'Palestinian state.' Meet
Jamal Zahalka.
According to Dani Dayan, the chief foreign envoy for the Yesha
Council – a Judea and Samaria leadership forum – MK Jamal Zahalka
(Balad) spoke on Haifa Radio Monday morning and rejected Netanyahu's
suggested solution – explaining that Jewish setlers who live inside
“Palestine” will not be loyal citizens in the new Arab state.
Dayan calls Zahalka's statement “the definition of hypocrisy.”
Dayan did not spell out the reason for this statement, because
Israeli citizens are already well acquainted with the antics of Zahalka
and his fellow Arab Members of Knesset, and realize that they are the
last ones who can speak honestly about loyalty to their state.
Hey Jamal - can Arab settlers who live inside Israel be loyal citizens of the Jewish state? If not, maybe they should leave....
Heh.
Labels: Israeli Arabs are a fifth column, Jamal Zahalka, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, two-state solution
MK: 'No peace without an end to the Zionist regime'
And we let shmucks like this sit in the Knesset....
Zionism is going to come to an end, as it “has no future in the Middle East,”
Balad chairman Jamal Zahalka said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post on
Sunday.
“I am not a Zionist, I am an anti-Zionist,” he
said.
Israel claims that it is a democratic country and that Arabs have
rights and even Knesset members, Zahalka said. But Israeli Arabs are unhappy
with this democracy and will continue to demand their rights, he
said.
Zahalka sees the conflict as unsolvable as long as Israel exists as
a Jewish state. At a recent conference in Canada he exclaimed: “In the long term
there is no chance for democracy, peace and freedom without ending the Zionist
regime.”
...
“Give me my land and take your democracy with you,”
he said addressing Israel, telling the Post this was the theme of one of his
speeches he gave in Canada, titled, “Debunking the myth of Israeli
democracy.”
Zahalka expressed frustration that nothing is happening now –
“no negotiations and no resistance” – and emphasized that there is a need to
act. The real danger is the efforts by Israel to marginalize the Palestinian
issue and normalize the occupation, he said.
In many other countries, people like Zahalka would be sitting in jail (or worse) for treason. In Israel, we put him in the Knesset.
What could go wrong?
Labels: Israeli Arabs are a fifth column, Jamal Zahalka, treason
This is rich: 'Israeli Arab' MK denounces Israel as an 'apartheid state,' Israeli destroys him
I'm just curious: How many black members of the South African parliament were there during apartheid? Anyone know? I'm going to guess that there were none, in an apartheid regime, the oppressed party would have no representation in the government.
Meet Jamal Zahalka. Jamal is an 'Israeli Arab' Knesset member. You would think that someone who is a Knesset member would have a bit of a hard time arguing that
Israel is an apartheid state. But you're wrong. That's precisely the argument Jamal made in a speech in Toronto last week.
According to a report in Shalom Toronto, MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad) made the remarks during an appearance at the “Palestine House” in Toronto in honor of the Arab Land Day, which was marked on March 30.
The report said that MK Zahalka's lecture, which was entitled
"Exposing the secrets of Israeli democracy”, focused on trying to
disprove what he said is the "myth" of the existence of a genuine
democratic government in Israel.
...
"The Palestinian dream is apartheid, let us have apartheid in one
country, it is better for us than to be refugees," said Zahalka, adding,
that in his view, the “Palestinian tragedy” is expressed in the Zionist
leadership’s pursuit to establish a Jewish state, which tried to
establish democratic rule by expelling Arabs. "We do not want this
democracy. Take it away. It’s very dangerous for us,” he said.
The myth of Israeli democracy is expressed, according to Zahalka, by
presenting an image to the outside world, according to which there is
rule of law, allowing general elections, voting privileges for all,
active political parties and discussion in the Knesset to approve
proposed laws.
However, beneath the surface, he alleged, there is discrimination by
the Israeli establishment against Arabs, the most outstanding
manifestations of it being expressed in the expropriation of land
belonging to PA Arabs, in the Law of Return granting the right to
citizenship to Jews only, in the prevention of family reunification of
spouses of PA Arabs when one spouse is a resident of the Palestinian
Authority and the other is a resident of Israel, and in empowering local
communities to establish committees to filter requests by PA Arabs.
He ignored the fact that Israeli Arabs have the right to vote, serve
in the Knesset, study in Israeli universities, share the same hospitals
and public facilities, work alongside Israeli Jews - and that PA
residents have perpetrated terrorist acts that have killed thousands of
Israelis.
Here is one woman's response to Zahalka. It's excellent (Hat Tip:
Varda N).
Dear MK Zahalka:
If Israel is an apartheid country, how did you ever manange to get into Hebrew University or be elected to the Knesset?
Israel did not transfer the Arabs in 1948. Israel expelled some Arabs after five Arab states rejected the UN partition plan and attacked Israel. Other Arabs left voluntarily, thinking Israel would be defeated in a week and they could come back and loot Jewish property. This is called "betting on the wrong horse."
Israel has no "Law of Return" for Arabs because they don't want the Arabs walking in and turning the country into one more Arab state where Jews can't set foot. Pakistan has no law of return for the Hindus it expelled. India has no law of return for the Moslems it expelled. Czechoslavakia has no law of return for the ethnic Germans it expelled. Canada has no law of return for the French it expelled. (Remember Longfellow's poem Evangeline?) Spain has no law of return for the Moors it expelled. None of the Arab states have any law of return for the Jews they expelled. I don't remember you denouncing any of them as apartheid.
Incidentally, MK Zahalka, do you know what will happen to you if you ever get your wish and Israel is, G-d forbid, defeated by the Arabs? The fanatic who take over will view you, because you served in the Knesset, as an Uncle Tom at best, a Quisling at worst. They will shoot you. Keep that in mind.
Respectfully yours,
Miranda Rose Smith
Indeed.
Labels: Israeli apartheid, Israeli Arabs are a fifth column, Israeli Knesset, Jamal Zahalka
