Lieberman: Israeli Arabs are 'problem,' require 'separation'
Zionism, Irrelevant Within A Generation | 06.11.2006 00:06 | Anti-racism | World
Lieberman: Israeli Arabs are 'problem,' require 'separation'
By `Haaretz Service
Cabinet minister Avigdor Lieberman said in a U.K. newspaper interview published on Sunday that Israel's Arab minority was a "problem" which required "separation" from the Jewish state.
"We established Israel as a Jewish country," the Sunday Telegraph quoted Lieberman as saying. "I want to provide an Israel that is a Jewish, Zionist country. It's about what kind of country we want to see in the future. Either it will be an ethnically mixed country like any other, or it will continue as a Jewish country."
Lieberman has often made remarks condemned as racist toward Israel's Arab minority, which numbers some one and a quarter million people.
In June, he was widely quoted as saying that Arab MKs who held contacts with Hamas should be executed.
"Minorities are the biggest problem in the world," the Sunday Telegraph quoted Lieberman as saying. Asked by the newspaper if citizens of Arab descent should be forced out through territorial redistribution, he said:
"I think separation between two nations is the best solution. Cyprus is the best model. Before 1974, the Greeks and Turks lived together and there were frictions and bloodshed and terror.
"After 1974, they constituted all Turks on one part of the island, all Greeks on the other part of the island and there is stability and security."
Told that in Cyprus thousands were forcibly driven from their homes, he replied: "Yes, but the final result was better."
The newspaper said that an aide to Lieberman later sought to expand on his remarks.
"Israeli Arabs don't have to go," the unnamed aide was quoted as saying. "But if they stay they have to take an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish Zionist state."
iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/107927
Olmert: Lieberman's views on Israeli Arabs are not my own
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/783926.html
Olmert can make this claim all he wants, but he invited Lieberman to join his cabinet, and his policies and actions prove otherwise.
By `Haaretz Service
Cabinet minister Avigdor Lieberman said in a U.K. newspaper interview published on Sunday that Israel's Arab minority was a "problem" which required "separation" from the Jewish state.
"We established Israel as a Jewish country," the Sunday Telegraph quoted Lieberman as saying. "I want to provide an Israel that is a Jewish, Zionist country. It's about what kind of country we want to see in the future. Either it will be an ethnically mixed country like any other, or it will continue as a Jewish country."
Lieberman has often made remarks condemned as racist toward Israel's Arab minority, which numbers some one and a quarter million people.
In June, he was widely quoted as saying that Arab MKs who held contacts with Hamas should be executed.
"Minorities are the biggest problem in the world," the Sunday Telegraph quoted Lieberman as saying. Asked by the newspaper if citizens of Arab descent should be forced out through territorial redistribution, he said:
"I think separation between two nations is the best solution. Cyprus is the best model. Before 1974, the Greeks and Turks lived together and there were frictions and bloodshed and terror.
"After 1974, they constituted all Turks on one part of the island, all Greeks on the other part of the island and there is stability and security."
Told that in Cyprus thousands were forcibly driven from their homes, he replied: "Yes, but the final result was better."
The newspaper said that an aide to Lieberman later sought to expand on his remarks.
"Israeli Arabs don't have to go," the unnamed aide was quoted as saying. "But if they stay they have to take an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish Zionist state."
iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/107927
Olmert: Lieberman's views on Israeli Arabs are not my own
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/783926.html
Olmert can make this claim all he wants, but he invited Lieberman to join his cabinet, and his policies and actions prove otherwise.
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