A day after the former president suffered a massive stroke, MK Basel Ghattas of the Joint (Arab) List calls Shimon Peres “one of the pillars of the Zionist colonial project, and one of the most despicable, cruel, radical and long-lived [of its leadership].”
As a result, Ghattas says in a Facebook post, Peres “was the most damaging and calamitous for the Palestinian nation.”
Even so, Ghattas continues, Peres managed to “portray himself as a dove” to the point that he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Arab MK Basel Ghattas from the Joint (Arab) List addresses the Knesset on November 26, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
“So let us at least remember his true essence in his death, as a tyrant directly responsible for crimes and war crimes directed against us,” Ghattas writes, adding “our blood soaks him from head to toe.”
Ghattas’s comments are met with outrage by other Israeli politicians. Among them is Zionist Union MK Itzik Shmuli, who calls Ghattas “a petty and wretched man who entire contribution to politics [is] sowing hatred and animosity, support for terror and cheap, provocative self-promotion. He is not fit to utter Peres’s name.”
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