Posted on 04/15/2008 6:03:41 AM PDT by forkinsocket
An Arab citizen of Israel and member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) Monday listed himself as a representative of "Palestine" at a high-profile conference in Qatar.
Ahmed Tibi listed himself on the registry at the Doha Forum, which was attended by an Israeli delegation headed by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, as heading up a six-man team from Palestine - a state which never has, and still does not exist, but which the international community headed by the US is working to create on ancient Jewish lands.
At the conference, Tibi smeared the country that had elevated him to position of lawmaker, comparing it to formerly racist South Africa where blacks were banned from any participation in the political process.
"Israel is an apartheid state," he publicly told Livni - who during her keynote address had expressed support for the establishment of democracies in the Middle East. How could she then talk of democracy, he sneered?
According to Ynetnews, the foreign minister deftly exposed Tibi's lie: "The very fact that you are an Israeli Knesset member, that you are the deputy speaker of the Knesset as a matter of fact, who represents 20 percent of Israel's population, that you are here and that you can say anything you please – that is the proof that Israel is a democratic nation," she said, responding from the podium.
Back home in Jerusalem other members of Knesset expressed outrage at Tibi's treachery, and threatened to have him disciplined, even calling for him to be "exiled" to the Palestinian Authority's current "capital," Ramallah.
MK Avigdor Lieberman who chairs the Israel Our Home Party, described the Israeli Arab as "a fifth column – in every sense of the word.
"Tibi should transfer from the Israeli Knesset to the Palestinian Authority's parliament in Ramallah," he charged. "He is using his position as an MK to inflict harm upon the State of Israel and destroy it from within, as is proven by this case."
The deputy minister of foreign affairs, Majalli Whbee, said the time had come for Tibi, who has a long track record of duplicity and disloyalty to Israel, to decide which country he represents.
"It is Tibi's right to stand for the country or entity of his choosing, but he cannot be a member of one nation's parliament while representing another at international conventions," Whbee said, announcing his intention to refer the matter to the Knesset Ethics Committee for disciplinary action.
Despite the uproar Tibi, once an official advisor to PLO arch terrorist Yasser Arafat, knows from past experience that he is not in any danger of losing his seat in the Knesset.
Israel's Jewish parliamentarians have always lacked the will to oust their Arab colleagues despite repeated and brazen displays of perfidy by a number of them.
La Raza! Atzlan! Re Conquista! They are no different in their ethnocentrism.
HE should be arrested and deported the minute he gets back.
There is no so-called palestine, no any so-called palestinians but for various conglomerations of predominantly islamist arabs which Israel - for whatever God forsaken reason - has convinced itself it must put up with.
Somebody needs to run that Amalekstinian “MP” the bloody hell out of Israel on a one-way ticket!
I am convinced they tolerate the arabs for cheap labor.
It’s a mistake.
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