Yes, supporters of terrorism: it is time to stop whitewashing the actions of Arab MKs

The survey conducted by "Ulpan Shishi" drove journalists and leftists crazy.

But how would you define Knesset members who make pilgrimages to the families of Jewish massacres, and hug and pose with terrorists?

Kalman Liebskind

05/06/2022

Sunday, 05 June 2022, 21:14 Updated: 21:28

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Is that the only thing that bothers you?

"Ulpan Shishi" survey (Photo: screenshot, screenshot)

The poll question presented by Amit Segal at Ulpan Shishi last week - "Do you agree with the claim that the government relies on supporters of terrorism" - has thrown many leftists out of balance, insulted on behalf of some Arab Knesset members.

"This is a disgrace to me," Yair Lapid responded to a question that addressed the very legitimacy of presenting such a question.

"It's to take the worst racist incitement of Bibi and Ben Gvir," explained the man, who one day announced that he would not go with the "Zoebi'z", and also sharpened that "do not do business with the common, we announced it a thousand times," and another day turned around and ruled : "There is no problem in forming a government with the mutual support."

The replacement prime minister stepped up to do so when he stated that "making it a legitimate question in prime time is illegitimate."

Reno Tzurur, another example, scolded Mano Geva, who was responsible for the survey, in his program on IDF waves. "There is a problem with this question," he stated.

A few days before this poll, Uri Misgav stated in Haaretz, referring to Benjamin Netanyahu, that "the texts he releases about the coalition and the Arab MKs ('supporters of terrorism') are clearly Goebbels." On Sunday, Shani Littman was also shocked by the question asked about the Arab Knesset members. In this studio, and he gets an opening here every evening. "

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He also announced that he would not go with the "Zoebi'z".

Lapid (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

The newspaper's TV critic, whose writers have already praised acts of terrorism and also compared Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler, was horrified that all the residents of "Ulpan Shishi" - from Daphne Liel to Amnon Abramovitch - were silent when this horrific survey was presented.

It was also important for her to mention - it is not entirely clear what the connection is - that the question about the supporters of terrorism was asked "two days before the flag parade".

"How does brainwashing work?" Littman asked and also replied: "Slowly and efficiently. In small, almost imperceptible drips. By heating the water while the frog swims in them comfortably."

Well, with that last line I totally agree.

There is indeed brainwashing here, and it is this brainwashing that is leading journalists and leftists to divert the debate from the shocking issue of Arab MKs' support for terrorism, to the ridiculous preoccupation with the question of whether it is legitimate to wonder about it in the poll. The Supreme Court, which is responsible for the legal analysis of the question, has so far rejected all requests to disqualify Arab Knesset members on the grounds that they support armed struggle, but since we are not committed to legal analysis here, and can simply let the facts speak, We'll do it.

Ignore reality

Here is a paragraph from a letter published about a year ago in the case of MK Mansour Abbas in the Haaretz newspaper. In 2013, while serving as deputy chairman of the Islamic Movement, he visited with several senior members of a family of prisoners on the occasion of Palestinian Prisoner's Day.

The delegation paid a condolence visit to Acre to the family of the terrorist Fawzi Nimer, the head of the Akko squad, who was behind many terrorist attacks in the northern region.

She later visited the Bakri family from the settlement of Bana, two of whose sons assisted the suicide bomber who carried out the attack at the Meron junction, in which nine Israelis were killed.

Members of the movement also came to strengthen the families of Samir Sarasawi and Ali Omriya Mavtin, who were sentenced to a long prison term after in 1988 they threw grenades into the heart of a civilian population in Haifa and injured 29 people.

Abbas and his friends ended their day in Araba, with Muhammad Canaan,

Now tell yourself - whether you are on the right or you are on the left - how to treat those who come with a delegation of his party to visit the family whose sons helped a suicide bomber to murder Mordechai Yehuda Friedman, and Marlene Menachem, and Mason Amin Hassan, and Sergeant Major Roni E. Anem, and Sergeant Omri Goldin, and Sergeant Yifat Gavrieli, and Sari Goldstein, and Adelina Makona, and Rebecca Roja?

How would you define a Knesset member who bothered to visit someone who mediated between a terrorist organization from Lebanon and members of a terrorist organization in Jenin?

How much can we ignore reality and tell ourselves stories?

Know what?

Let's focus for a moment on the condolence visit of Mansour Abbas and his friends to Fawzi Nimer's family.

Nimer, an Israeli Arab living in Acre, headed a terrorist cell that murdered Victor Guetta, Rachel Bressler and Haim Manikowitz in the 1960s.

The squad under Nimer carried out a total of 22 attacks.

She placed explosive devices, among other things, next to residential buildings, near trucks and public transportation vehicles, and on railroad tracks.

Nimer, who commanded this squad, was sentenced to 27 life sentences.

After 16 years in prison he was released in the Jibril deal.

When he was released, he became a hero.

In 2013, he died in Gaza.

An article by Yishai Friedman from Makor Rishon describes the ceremony in memory of this murderer of Jews, to which he invited the public in Balad, a legal and legitimate Israeli party. Hadash, another legitimate and "moderate" party, hailed him as a "freedom fighter" .

Condolences to the families of terrorists.

Abbas (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Ra'am, as mentioned, came to his family home to comfort her about his death. Yes, Mansour Abbas was also there, and so was Ibrahim Sarsour, then chairman of Ra'am, and also former MK 'Abd al-Malek Dahamshe.

A year has passed, and to commemorate the one-year anniversary of being taken from us, came No. 2 in the USSR today, MK Mazen Ghanaim.

Ghanaim praised the martyr, stood still in his memory, and clarified in his remarks that "there is no green line," that there are no internal and foreign Arabs, and that we are all one Palestinian.

So why are we still playing with the question of whether it is permissible to treat this gang as a supporter of terrorism or not?

Because there are too many journalists around us who are willing to turn a blind eye and forgive those who embrace Jewish murderers, provided that their dignity is not harmed, and their political legitimacy is not harmed.

Imagine a delegation from the Likud or Religious Zionism going on a tour of the homes of Jews who murdered Arabs, and passing them one by one, house after house, and at each such visit taking pictures with family members and even making sure, without a drop of fear or embarrassment, that these pictures are published?

Would anyone forget this behavior for them?

Would anyone present them, a hundred years later, as moderate people?

As a hope for coexistence?

Say, my colleagues in the press, are you crazy?

You understand what you look like when the only thing that bothers you, after all this list, is the question of "Friday Studio?".

Recruited press

Wait, that's not all.

"In 2017," reported Yishai Friedman, a member of Makor Rishon, "Abbas attended the reception for Arab-Israeli terrorist Lina Jarbouni. He sat in the first row of celebrities, along with all Knesset members and clerics of the Arab-Israeli leadership. "And some respect for a terrorist who helped Islamic Jihad carry out inferno attacks in Israel.

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"Abbas was sitting at the same event with several seats next to him, Sami Yunis, an Arab-Israeli terrorist who murdered an IDF soldier."

Well, Reno Bundle, how do you think all this should be treated?

Do you still think the claim that they are "supporters of terrorism" is a "Pike claim?".

Wait, we are not done with the RAAM yet. A year ago, after the police and the GSS managed to get their hands on suspects in an attempt to murder Jews and burn their property in the riots in Acre, a group of Arab residents set up a protest tent demanding the release of detainees.

A few days before he passed away, the chairman of the Knesset's Interior Committee, a man from Ra'am, MK Said Al-Kharomi, arrived for a visit to identify himself in this tent

. In front of the protesters in the tent, with the sign "Acre will not leave its sons in the prisons of the occupation", and below it are pictures of the detainees whose release is required. Who did MK Al-Kharomi demand not to leave in the prisons of the occupation?

The person against whom an indictment was filed that attributed to him the arson of the Effendi Hotel, arson following which the father of Mount Even was burned to death, and those who were accused of participating in brutal lynchings of Mordechai Katz and Mor Janashvili.

what do you say,

Is it a symbol of coexistence?

Tibi (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Do you remember the night of the pitchforks?

Three Israeli civilian terrorists infiltrated an IDF encampment on Saturday night, equipped with two axes, three knives and a pitchfork, and murdered soldiers Yuri Farda, Yaakov Dubinsky and Guy Friedman. , In the home of the terrorists' parents, other than supporting terrorists?

And why is the journalists' criticism of this poll so insane?

Because the Israeli press, in everything related to dealing with the exploits of Arab Knesset members, is betraying its role.

For years, commentators on Arab affairs have chosen, at worst, not to publish, and at best not to highlight, what might have drawn Arab parliamentarians as they really are.

If we did not have Yishai Friedman, a large part of the stories, including most of the ones you have read and will read here, would not be known to us at all.

And what about the common?

Now let's talk about a few other MKs, who are not in the coalition, and who have never received the Israeli media the treatment they deserved, the treatment reserved for those who support terrorists. What can we say about him

,

about Tibi? That he is a man of peace? That he hates violence? That he is a symbol of coexistence?

He used to visit the family of Mahmoud Jabarin, who spent 30 years in an Israeli prison for the murder of an Arab he suspected of collaborating with Israel. Tibi was not alone there. Ghanaim, and Matans Shehadeh, and the heads of the Islamic Movement and senior members of the Monitoring Committee. And when the released killer got married, former MK Yosef Jabarin came to rejoice with him on his holiday.

Tibi posted on his Facebook page an obituary for Sobia Yunis - Um Karim, the mother of the terrorist Karim Yunis, an Arab-Israeli who in 1980 abducted and murdered IDF soldier Avraham Bromberg. On another occasion, a picture of Tibi was published while feeding hot soup to Sami Yunis, the man who sent the two terrorists who murdered Bromberg to the operation. The two abducted the soldier, shot him in the head and threw him in the orchard. , Maher and Karim Yunis are "sacrificial symbols for their homeland."

Tibi was also photographed hugging Ali Aliyah, who was convicted in 1988 of throwing hand grenades at passers-by on Nordau Street in Haifa, and also with Bilal Khatib, who stabbed an IDF soldier and seriously wounded him, in revenge for his brother's death. The brother, if you ask, murdered Soldier Oleg Sheihat - and killed Ours is with the question of the survey presented by Amit Segal, and not with the fact that such people come in the audience and serve in the Knesset presidency?

Demanded the disqualification of RAAM. Bennett (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

It is impossible without a few words also about Hadash, which is somehow perceived here as moderate by all the Arab parties. A park where 30 Israelis were killed.

And if you want something from the past year, go to the party's support for terrorists who managed to escape from Gilboa Prison last September.

All this before we reached the Balad party, whose people had never had a problem connecting with murderous terrorists. Once it was the murder of soldier Moshe Tamam. For the third time, the party gave a signal to Zohar Ali, who was in prison for being part of a cell that planned suicide bombings in Israeli cafes and for military purposes.

The examples given here are a partial list. Very partial. Go to Yishai Friedman's Twitter account and you can read many more examples. The stories of Arab MKs' support for terrorism and terrorists over the years can fill an entire issue.

Umbrella of legitimacy

And another important word.

I know that it is now customary in the journalistic journalism to embrace this government, and its leader.

Well this very man, Naftali Bennett, went to the Central Election Commission but a little over a year ago, and asked to disqualify the entire RAAM party on the grounds that it is a party that supports terrorism. The Channel 12 poll did not demand the disqualification. Naftali Bennett demanded it.

Okay, say, This was before the election, before the people of the "right" got to know the people of Ra'am closely and were impressed by them.

Well, months after this government was launched, I interviewed Minister Matan Kahana and asked him if in the presence of what he knows today, his party withdraws from the definition of RAAM as a pro-terror party. Kahana refused to respond, and refused to back down from that statement.

I return to the end to all those journalists who thought there was a flaw in what Channel 12 did, when he asked "Do you agree with the claim that the government relies on supporters of terrorism".

It seems to me that after reading this list, there is only one matter that is important to deal with: how can it be that the Israeli media has never taken this issue seriously?

Not in the wording of the question of "Ulpan Shishi", but in the fact that we in the Knesset of Israel, in our House of Representatives, have such a collection of people who support terrorism and support people who murdered Jews?

How do we provide this bunch with such a crazy umbrella of legitimacy?

It's inconceivable.

This is not normal.

Haaretz's TV critic wondered if Amit Segal is a "reporter," a "commentator," a "speaker," or a "political adviser."

And I ask, if Segal is a "spokesman" or a "political adviser," how should journalists who turn a blind eye to these serial demonstrations of support for murderous Jews be defined?

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