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Tibi: It's not the PLO flag, but flag of Palestinians

Arab MK argues Palestinian flags at rally against Nation-State Law are not important compared to number of people coming to protest against the legislation; MK Ohana: 'futile efforts to change or annul the Nation-State Law have been further weakened by the Arab bear hug.'

MK Ahmad Tibi (Joint List) on Sunday dismissed claims of Palestinian flags and anti-israel chanting during the Nation-State Law protest as "secondary" in importance.

 

 

"It might have happened. I didn't hear it because the demonstration stretched from the Rabin Square to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. It's a secondary thing," Tibi said in an interview with Ynet. 

 

"There were 30,000 people and only 15-20 were waving Palestinian flags. 30,000 Jews and Arabs demonstrated to repeal this law and not everyone thinks the same thing. There are different political positions and different worldview," he explained.

  

Ahmad Tibi in anti- Nation State Law rally (Photo: Tal Shahar)
Ahmad Tibi in anti- Nation State Law rally (Photo: Tal Shahar)

 

He also rejected claims the protesters, who were demanding equality in the State of Israel, were waving the flag of another country while doing so.

 

"This is not the flag of another country, and I don't want you or anyone else to preach to the Arab public about morals," he insisted. "The flag is a flag of Palestinian people, not the PLO, not the flag of evil. It’s the same flag that a Palestinian who lives in Chile or anywhere else in the world, would wave."

  

Likud Minister Yuval Steinitz, meanwhile, condemned those who waved the Palestinian flags.

 

"Anyone who observed yesterday’s demonstration understands the underlying message: Yes to Palestine, no to the State of Israel as a Jewish state. I can understand those who demonstrated yesterday. They truly oppose the right of the Jewish people to a state of its own. They want to see an Arab-Palestinian country, and therefore they oppose the Nation-State Law that ensrhines in legislation the Jewish identity of the state," Steinitz accused.  

 

The Palestinian falg being raised in the Tel-Aviv anti Nation State Law rally

The Palestinian falg being raised in the Tel-Aviv anti Nation State Law rally

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MK Amir Ohana (Likud) asserted that “the futile efforts to change or annul the Nation-State Law have been further weakened by the Arab bear hug."

 

"We will choose to acknowledge the State of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people, as we did 70 years ago without anchoring it in writing. It’s good we did so now. It’s good that positions are clearer and that the masks are off,” he added.

 

“How is this law offensive to anybody? What Arab or Druze person can come to me and say, 'One of my rights was revoked by the Nation State Law?' Does the Druze people have national asspirations? The only ones who can honestly be offended by this law are those who had hopes of Israel becoming a binational state, or a bilingual state, or a state of all its citizens," Ohana opined.

 

MK Saleh Saed (Zionist Union), a Druze, stated that he didn't “think there was justification to raising the Palestinian flag in Tel Aviv. It was unnecessary defiance that hurts our rightful struggle against the Nation State Law. There is also no justification for anti-Israeli statements."

 

"But I will continue to fight for the rights of people to express opinions different to mine. It is legitimate, it is democracy, it is Israel—the world’s strongest democracy," Saed said. 

 

"Bibi and his friends on the Right proved again that they are petty people and prefer to incite and deal with tasteless issues instead of focusing on Israel’s security,” he went on to say, using Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nickname.  

 


פרסום ראשון: 08.12.18, 23:44
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