Defense Minister Liberman says the Joint List, whose leader earlier today called Hamas’s leader to congratulate him on his group’s emerging reconciliation deal with the rival Fatah party, is a “fifth column” and represents “terror groups in the Knesset.”
“I think the time has come to bring to justice those who subvert the foundations of the state,” he says.
Meanwhile, Ayman Odeh, the Joint List leader, releases a readout of his conversations with Hamas leader Haniyeh and the PA’s Abbas.
Odeh, according to the readout, told the two Palestinian leaders that Arabs throughout Israel are reacting to the reconciliation agreement “with great appreciation and hope.”
“The Palestinian president emphasized during the conversation his resolve to secure reconciliation and agree to a basic plan that will be acceptable to all sides and unite the Palestinian people against the occupation,” the readout says.
Haniyeh, meanwhile, “said that he appreciated [Odeh’s] phone call because it represents the feelings of the Palestinian people wherever they are, and highlights their commitment to unity and to ending their differences and mustering joint efforts to end the occupation.”
Joint (Arab) List party chairman Ayman Odeh reacts during a plenum session in the Knesset, January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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