Balad MK Hanin Zoabi says in radio interview
that the kidnappers of the three teens "aren't terrorists" and are
"forced" to use such means as the only way of changing their reality •
MK Moti Yogev: I will work to have Zoabi removed from the Knesset.
Balad MK Hanin Zoabi is
inciting kidnappings, Lieberman says
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Photo credit: Lior Mizrahi  |
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman took to his
Facebook page on Tuesday morning to condemn remarks by Balad MK Hanin
Zoabi, who said that the kidnappers who abducted three teenaged yeshiva
students on Thursday night "aren't terrorists."
In an interview with the 102 FM radio station,
Zoabi said that the kidnappers "are people who don't see any
opportunity of changing their reality. [They] are forced to used such
means until Israel wakes up, until the citizens of Israel and the
society wake up and feel the suffering of the other."
"Not only are the kidnappers terrorists, Zoabi herself is a terrorist," Lieberman posted in response.
"The kidnappers and Zoabi, who is inciting
kidnappings, should meet exactly the same fate." Lieberman's post
garnered thousands of "likes."
Other parliamentarians were swift to respond.
MK Moti Yogev (Habayit Hayehudi) said he intended to take action to have
Zoabi removed from the Knesset.
"Her positions show that she's closer to the
terrorists and should be with them rather than in the Israeli Knesset,"
Yogev wrote on his Facebook page.
Meanwhile, an altercation broke out between
Zoabi and Knesset Interior Committee Chairwoman Miri Regev (Likud)
during a discussion about the Palestinian hunger strikers. When Zoabi
complained that the prisoners were being denied their human rights,
Regev turned on her and called her a "traitor," recalling Zoabi's
presence on and support of the Mavi Marmara ship sent to Israel in 2010
to break the embargo on Gaza.
In a related development, police arrested
three of Zoabi's relatives on Tuesday on suspicion that they allegedly
threatened her relative, 16-year-old Muhammad Zoabi of Nazareth, who
posted a video online calling the kidnappers terrorists and calling for
the release of the three teenagers.
Standing in front of an Israeli flag, Muhammed
Zoabi said in Arabic, Hebrew and English: "Bring them back, and it's
best for you if you bring them back now."
The young man then appealed to Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him to "wake up and stop cooperating with the
terrorists. The Palestinian Authority are the biggest terrorists of
all. These three Israeli kids were abducted -- tomorrow it could be me,
you, or any other Israeli, Arab or Jew."
MK Zoabi dismissed her young relative as
"confused, detached from the reality he lives in," and noted that he
attends a Jewish school.
The three men arrested denied that they had threatened the youth and said they were trying to protect him.
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