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MK Avigdor Lieberman (AP)
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| By Israel Insider staff and partners May 5, 2006 |
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An nationalist Israeli legislator who backs the expulsion of Arab Israelis went a step further Thursday, calling in parliament for the death penalty to be imposed on Arab lawmakers who met with leaders of the radical Lebanese Hezbollah and the militant Palestinian Hamas.
Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the Yisrael Beitenu Party, which was passed over for a place in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's new coalition government, spoke from the podium at the beginning of a parliamentary session to approve the new Cabinet, lashing out at legislators from the United Arab List who met last month with a Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament.
"We need to bring judgment on all those collaborators," Lieberman said. "At the end of World War II there were the Nuremberg trials and the leaders of the Nazi regime were executed, not only them, also their collaborators ... I hope that will be the fate of the collaborators in this house."
The only death sentence Israel has ever carried out was that of Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann, in 1962.
Israeli Arab lawmaker Taleb A-Sana said it was shocking that at one point Lieberman, who has held Cabinet posts in two previous governments had been considered a serious contender for the job of minister responsible for the police in Olmert's center-left coalition.
"What he is saying does not fall within the category of politics, it's pathological," A-Sana told Israeli Channel 2 TV. "We need to pass legislation stopping racists, fascists, like this reaching the house and getting official posts."
The AP contributed to this report.
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