The Knesset Ethics Committee condemns Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh for comments made this week calling fellow MK and former Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter a murderer.
In an interview on Channel 2, Odeh said the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service murdered Arafat. He said that Avi Dichter, who headed the Shin Bet in 2004 when Arafat died, “sent the people” who murdered him. Dichter is now a Likud MK.
Ayman Odeh (left) and Nissan Slomiansky interviewed on February 29, 2016 (Channel 2 screenshot)
He also said that Dicter had ordered the murders of Hamas co-founders Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi while he headed the internal security service.
Odeh’s comment came in the context of a stormy Knesset debate surrounding a law that would allow MKs to vote to suspend fellow lawmakers.
Responding on his Facebook page, Dichter said he was “proud to have had the privilege” of sending Yassin and Rantisi “deep into the earth,” one within a month of the other, in early 2004.
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