Arab MK Zoabi at Temple Mount: Racist Israelis didn't learn from the Holocaust.

Arab MK Zoabi at Temple Mount: Racist Israelis didn't learn from the Holocaust. (Jpost).


"You say we are terrorists and that we want to fight you," MK Haneen Zoabi (Balad) shouted to Border Police blocking her from accessing the area. "We want to live, to pray, to enter our schools, our home, our land. This is terrorism? To live is terrorism? To fight for our right to live is terrorism?"

Zoabi compared the police's behavior toward her to the Holocaust: "Someone did this to you, decades ago. Remember that? Somebody did rule over you and screwed you over decades ago. You did not learn the lesson.

"What is the lesson of the Holocaust? Don't yell and don't be racist, right?" she said. "They killed six million of you, why?"

Other MKs, including Balad leader Jamal Zahalke and Taleb Abu-Arrar of UAL-Ta'al, were blocked from entering the Temple Mount and Al-Aksa mosque when they arrived at the site as part of a High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens in Israel protest, but were allowed in later, along with the general public.

Zahalke and Zoabi accused police of "playing with fire" for entering the mosque, and said they desecrated the place.

"Balad condemns the provocative entry of right-wing people to the Al-Aqsa Mosque scare and the disproportional action of the police. We call for them to immediately leave [the site] and not desecrate the mosque again," Zahalke said.

Knesset Interior Committee chairwoman Miri Regev (Likud) accused Zoabi of inciting to violence, saying "she doesn't miss an opportunity to harm the Jewish People and the interests of Israeli citizens."

Regev called Zoabi a Trojan horse in the Knesset and called for Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein to remove her parliamentary immunity. Hmmm....It was NEVER about land but religious based hatred.