Last year, the trailer for a documentary named “My Home” was released showing that Arab Israelis have a wide range of opinions about their state, with many of them being very patriotic.
(I don’t know if the film was ever released.)
In the wake of the violence over Umm al Hiran in the Negev (background here), the filmmaker released a section of the film showing how Israeli Arab members of Knesset, in 2015, were inciting villagers to literally kill themselves rather than be relocated from their illegally built village to a new community where they would be given free land, an infrastructure, schools and everything else needed to grow.
All of the Arab MKs from the Arab Joint List (visiting the town with terror supporter and inciter Sheikh Raed Salah) disingenuously refer to the people who they are telling to sacrifice themselves as “we.”
MK Jamal Zahalka said, “If blood is spilled, let it be this way.…We, the sons of the Palestinian people, will die rather than be deported [sic].”
Invoking the honor/shame dynamics that are so important to Arab society, MK Ayman Odeh said “We are going with this issue until the end [with no compromise]…The demolition of the village is a humiliation to each one of us.”
These members of Knesset are literally encouraging bloodshed over compromise – while they return to their comfortable homes that evening.
(h/t Yoel)
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