Lapid says if guilty, Arab MK is a ‘miserable traitor’

Yesh Atid leader Yari Lapid says that if MK Basel Ghattas of the Joint (Arab) List is guilty of passing telephones and SIM cards to a pair of Palestinian security prisoners then he is “a miserable traitor” who deserves to be in jail.

Yesh Atid party chairman MK Yair Lapid speaks during a party faction meeting at the Knesset, November 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Yesh Atid party chairman MK Yair Lapid speaks during a party faction meeting at the Knesset, November 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid says he wants Ghattas stripped of his immunity and not impeached, which will take too long.

“If he is guilty, he is a miserable traitor who should be sitting in prison, not touring the world in the next few years telling everyone he is being politically persecuted.

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