Storm in the Finance Committee: Member of Knesset Ofer Kasif (The joint list) was removed from the discussion today (Monday), after calling the IDF soldiers ‘war criminals’. Shlomo Krai Plastered in silver: “You are like Antiochus, and like him you too will disappear.”
The beginning of the event was that the MK Yinon Azulai He wanted to congratulate President Yitzhak (Buzi) Herzog for lighting a Hanukkah candle in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron: “Conquering the dark. We hope he continues on this path.”
Following this, MK Kasif began insulting the IDF and said: “The president’s decision to come to Hebron yesterday is shameful. It evokes a feeling of despair no less. Hebron is an occupied city run by a sickening apartheid regime with war crimes on a daily basis. A sickening apartheid regime run by a brutal and insurgent army. “There is a violent occupation here by an army of gods and invaders called settlers.”
Kasif even personally attacked the president, saying that “That the president got there and gave legitimacy is a shame and a disgrace. Especially since he lit the candle in front of a malicious gang that justifies many murderers like Goldstein. To my chagrin and heavy remorse, I voted for him, he is not my president. “
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At this point, the committee chairman, MK Alex Kushnir Asked Casif to maintain proper language if he wished to continue to express his opinion in committee. MK Keren Barak She added: “The IDF is the army of us all, what happens is the opposite, a counter-occupation and a creepy occupation of people you represent, they are the murderers. If we have reached a point where we welcome a simple action, that a president comes to the Cave of the Patriarchs, where our ancestors are buried, they are this normal action, great heroism seems to be our problem. This is a normal event that should be routine. “
After Barak’s remarks, Kasif called the IDF soldiers ‘war criminals,’ and Kushnir responded: “No one here will call IDF soldiers war criminals, IDF soldiers protect us all. “No one will call our soldiers war criminals, whoever does in the committee will not be here.”
Member of Knesset Ahmed Tibi He came out in defense of his party member and mentioned that close to the place where the president lit candles, a massacre of the Arab population took place. “Seven meters from where the president was, a massacre was committed by a disgraced criminal named Goldstein, whom the president did not address in his speech. To do so in front of Goldstein supporters who made him a memorial, the visit is a historical sin“Tibi argued.
Qarai: “There were many massacres in Hebron, this is a Hanukkah event unrelated to it.” Subsequently, MK Kasif was removed after three readings.
Following his removal from the committee, the Knesset member tweeted: “I have now been expelled from the Finance Committee because I called the Israeli soldiers in Hebron” war criminals. ” “Whoever commits these, is a war criminal by any definition and criterion. Point.”
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