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Mosby

(16,159 posts)
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 03:48 PM Jun 2014

Arab-Israeli lawmaker says kidnappers are not terrorists

JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Arab-Israeli Knesset member said the kidnappers of three Israeli teenagers are not terrorists.

“They are people that cannot see any way to change their reality, and they are forced to use these means until Israeli society wises up a bit and sees and feels the suffering of the other,” Hanin Zoabi of the Balad party said Tuesday in an interview with Tel Aviv Radio.

Zoabi participated in the May 2010 flotilla to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip and was punished by the Knesset Ethics Committee for her actions. She was aboard the Mavi Marmara, the ship on which nine Turkish passengers were killed in clashes with Israeli commandos.

http://www.jta.org/2014/06/17/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/arab-knesset-member-says-kidnappers-are-not-terrorists

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Arab-Israeli lawmaker says kidnappers are not terrorists (Original Post) Mosby Jun 2014 OP
This speaks well of Israeli democracy. shira Jun 2014 #1
 

shira

(30,109 posts)
1. This speaks well of Israeli democracy.
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 08:18 AM
Jun 2014

Imagine a sitting Congress critter defending terrorist acts vs. Americans.

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