Lieberman to Galei Tzahal commander: Darwish cannot be a part of the Israeli narrative
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman met Thursday with Galei Tzahal (the IDF's radio station) commander Yaron Dekel, following a controversy over a show broadcasted on the radio station's airwaves about controversial Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
Lieberman stated that while the ranks of government would not interfere with the content of the radio station's broadcasts, "Darwish, who called in his poems for the (removal) of the Jewish people from the land of Israel… cannot be a part of the (Israeli narrative)." The Minister told Dekel that if Darwish is a part of the Israeli narrative, than it's a slippery slope to including Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini or even German dictator Adolf Hitler in that discussion.
