MK Ofer Kasif from the Hadash-Ta'al list was interviewed this evening (Sunday) by the main edition of the ultra-orthodox radio "Kol Barama" and claimed there that terrorists who shoot IDF soldiers are not terrorists but guerrilla fighters, similar to partisans.
"We are opposed to violence and we are in favor of a non-violent struggle against the occupation," Kasif clarified when asked how he defines a Palestinian who shoots a soldier, "the biggest terror is the occupation itself."
"A Palestinian who shoots an IDF soldier is a guerrilla fighter, I am in favor of a non-violent struggle, I don't want anyone to be murdered.
Anyone who harms a military force according to the internationally accepted definition and the UN definition - an occupied people have the right to use armed means against the occupation. I am against it, but you cannot call them terrorists. Just as you cannot call the 12 royal casualties that way. In the eyes of the majority of the public in Germany, those who fight with my soldiers The occupation in Poland and called them partisans, they didn't call them terrorists," Kasif added.
The chairman of the Noam party MK Avi Maoz said in response: "It is impossible for the members of the Joint List who support terrorism to sit in the Israeli Knesset.
It hurts even more to see that Yair Lapid will do anything to sit on the prime minister's throne, even if it means leaning on these supporters of terrorism.
The people of Israel must understand: it's either a Jewish state that knows how to defend itself against its enemies, or a state of all its citizens that will have mercy on its enemies."
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