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Devout Jewish MK: Expel treacherous Arabs


By Stan Goodenough
September 11, 2006

Right-thinking Knesset member Effie Eitam called Monday for the expulsion from Samaria and Judea of the overwhelming majority of ?Palestinians,? and for the removal of Israeli Arabs from the Jewish state's political system.

Eitam ? a former left-wing liberal who subsequently spurned political ?correctness? and turned to embrace his Jewish heritage ? identified the Palestinian Arabs as an implacable enemy of his nation, the Israeli Arabs as ?first degree traitors? who comprised a ?fifth column? inside Israel, and Israel?s war ethics as urgently in need of change after the debacle of the recent war against the Lebanese Hizb?allah.

The member of the National Union-National Religious Party was speaking during a memorial service for an IDF officer killed in Lebanon last month.

As expected, Eitam?s comments triggered an outcry in Israel, with the country?s leftist-leaning media giving them prominent coverage and airing negative responses to throughout the day.

Ahmed Tibi, one of the men in Eitam?s sights and one of the most treacherous of the Arab Knesset members, foamed in fury at his Jewish adversary and sought to defame him by suggesting that it would have been better if he had made his comments ?in German.?

Historically, however, it is the Arab side that has praised and emulated the Nazis, and whose goal of obliterating Israel most closely resembles Hitler?s ?Final Solution.?

Tibi and his fellow Arab ?lawmakers? have openly supported terrorist attacks on Israelis; have encouraged the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers and have broken Israeli law by visiting enemy Arab states like Syria in a show of solidarity with the leaders of those countries.

News reports Sunday morning said that Israel?s attorney-general Menachem Mazuz has called for a criminal investigation of National Democratic Assembly Party MKs Azmi Bishara, Jamal Zahalka and Wasil Taha for visiting an enemy state (Syria) without authorization to do so.

During their visit, Bishara warned the Syrians that Israel could be preparing to attack them.

Extreme leftist Jewish Israelis in the Meretz-Yahad Party and the militant Peace Now group also erupted, with some calling for a criminal investigation ? not into the sell-out Arabs but into Eitam, in a bid to have him prosecuted for his remarks.

Peace Now ? an extra-parliamentary group of self-hating Jews that never misses an opportunity to attack their own people ? described the devout, quiet-spoken Eitam as ?a racist and hallucinatory leader.?

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