Far-right party leader: Arabs are citizens of Israel ‘for now at least’

26 April 2021, 3:50 pm

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Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich tells the Kan public broadcaster that Arabs are citizens of Israel, “for now at least.”

Smotrich’s far-right party is a part of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s right wing-religious bloc. His refusal to join a right-wing minority government propped up by the Islamist Ra’am party is blocking one of Netanyahu’s few potential routes to forming a coalition.

“Some of our enemies are still sitting in the Knesset and there are those who think it is possible to rely on them for assembling a government. Open your eyes and remove this stupidity from the agenda,” Smotrich says at a faction meeting, apparently referring to Ra’am.