Joint List chief: PM on mission of delegitimization against Arabs

7 February 2016, 8:20 pm

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Ayman Odeh, the head of the Joint (Arab) List party, tells Channel 2 television that Netanyahu’s proposed legislation to suspend MKs who behave in an “unseemly” manner is an attempt to undermine Israel’s Arab community.

Netanyahu “has embarked on a delegitimization mission against the Arab population,” Odeh says.

He insists that last week’s meeting between three of his party’s MKs and the families of terrorists killed while carrying out attacks against Israelis was a humanitarian mission over the Jewish state’s refusal to return the bodies of the assailants.

Odeh also decries violence, saying “an attack on a Jew for being a Jew, or a Palestinian for being a Palestinian, is an unacceptable act.”