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Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Zionist Union MK urges Ethics Committee to suspend Zoabi
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleZionist Union MK Nahman Shai lodges a complaint against Joint (Arab) List MK Hanin Zoabi with the Knesset Ethics Committee, urging her suspension after the firebrand lawmaker called IDF soldiers involved in the 2010 Mavi Marmara raid “murderers.”
Other Knesset members — from both the opposition and coalition — also railed against Zoabi for her remarks.
“IDF soldiers are our children, calling them murderers is an abomination. Zoabi be ashamed,” writes opposition leader Isaac Herzog on Twitter.
#letmegetthisstraight MK Zoabi calls IDF soldiers murderers and we still pay her salary? If she were in Congress she'd be expelled at once
— Michael Oren (@DrMichaelOren) June 29, 2016
“Why are there still people in the Knesset who dare call our soldiers, my children, murderers?” adds Yesh Atid MK Haim Jelin.
Kulanu MK Merav Ben-Ari writes on Facebook: “A dirty and unimportant woman who is in the Knesset at the expense of all of our money stands up in the plenum and says IDF soldiers are murderers and the balcony of the plenum is full of soldiers.”
“There is no forgiveness,” she adds. “From my perspective, she doesn’t exist.”
The Times of Israel Community.