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| By Israel Insider staff April 3, 2008 |
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MK Effi Eitam (NU/NRP) slammed MK Ahmed Tibi (UAL-Ta'al) on Thursday for his Wednesday stopover in Lebanon, saying "Tibi is following in [former Balad MK Azmi] Bishara's footsteps." Bishara fled the country after an investigation was opened against him for suspected espionage and aiding Hizbullah during the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
"While the IDF is on high alert in the North and its soldiers are preparing for terror attacks on the Lebanese border, Tibi chose to visit an enemy country, and to legitimize such possible actions," Eitam said. Bishara, he said, also "started with seemingly innocent visits to enemy countries and ended with exposing secrets to Hizbullah."
"The continuous treacherous behavior of the Arab MKs brings closer the day that they will be removed from the Knesset and the state of Israel," he added.
MK Aryeh Eldad (NU/NRP) also called for a probe against Tibi, stating that "in Israel's point of view, anyone who disregards the law and visits an enemy country should himself be counted as an enemy of Israel." He added: "the behavior patterns of the Arab MKs, who take the law into their own hands and decide who is an enemy country and who is not, is intolerable."
Piling on, MK David Rotem (Israel Beiteinu) said that "[Tibi] again tramples on Israeli law, and ignores his responsibility to be a loyal citizen of our country." He called for a loyalty oath: "This event only serves to support thoughts of proposing a law requiring that a formal statement of allegiance to the state be made in order to receive citizenship," he said.
Tibi has been investigated in the past for visiting Lebanon. "If I am invited [to an enemy state], I'll go despite the law. I am sure that a person who violates a law that is unjust - or whose conscience is completely clear and is willing to pay the price and be imprisoned in order to raise public awareness regarding injustice - is truly showing his respect for the highest values," said Tibi late last year during a debate in the Knesset on bills to ban MKs from traveling to enemy countries. |
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