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February 8th, 2016 
Awake Goy Days of Palestine, Jerusalem –Israeli Knesset has approved new law allowing Israeli parliamentarians oust their Arab colleagues.
The Israeli Knesset approved this law Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had recommended it, aiming to dismiss three Arab MKs, who visited families of Palestinian victims killed by the Israeli occupation forces in West Bank.
A couple of days ago, three MKs from Balad, one of the parties making up the Joint Arab List in the Israeli Knesset, visited the Palestinian families of the victims whose bodies are still kept by the Israeli occupation, to comfort them.
In addition, the three MKs stood in a moment of silence for Palestinian martyrs.
However, racial Israeli MKs condemned the meeting and called for taking punishing measures against the MKs. Some suggested revoking parliamentarian immunity.
Netanyahu praised the approval of his bill. “We have to keep limits and basic rules of behaviour so that democracy will not turn into a suicide pact,” he said at a Likud faction meeting. “Democracy must protect itself and defend itself,” he added.
Calling for all the Palestinians living under the domination of his government to adopt his racial beliefs, he said: “There is a limit. There is something called national pride,” referring to code of conduct of his government, which an Israeli can kill any Palestinian without any reason or for entertainment.
Joint List chairman Ayman Odeh criticised the law, calling it undemocratic and saying that only “the people” can vote its representatives into or out of the Knesset.
Odeh “condemned the wild incitement and delegitimisation of the Arab population and its leaders,” calling the Balad MKs’ meeting “a humanitarian act.”
“We support the Palestinian people’s battle against the occupation and for a state, and we are against harm to innocent people,” he said. “Anyone who fears for democracy must fight with us for democracy…and real peace.”
High-Follow Up Committee for the Arab Citizens of Israel chairman Muhammad Barakei, a former MK, called the proposal a plot to bring “racial purity” to the Knesset.
Barakei said he and the Joint List are for a “political struggle” as opposed to a violent one, but hinted that Israeli Arabs may consider boycotting the political process, saying: “If someone wants it, we may consider contributing to that racial purity.”
Source Article from http://www.daysofpalestine.com/news/new-israeli-knesset-law-allows-ousting-arab-mks/
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