Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman and former Minister of Strategic affairs Avigdor Lieberman pointed the finger at Israel’s Arab Knesse Members Tuesday, pointing out that not a single one had condemned the massacre of yeshiva students in Jerusalem Thursday night by an Israeli-Arab.
“There is no doubt that the same incitement of Arab MKs who terms the IDF’s operations in Gaza to defend the residents of Ashkelon and Sderot ‘war crimes’, has brought about the series of incidents we have seen, unfortunately, in recent days,” Lieberman said. “It began with the attempted lynch of municipal inspectors in eastern Jerusalem, on the central Salah a-Din street, almost opposite the Justice Ministry, and from there went on to Umm el-Fahm, to the dastardly incitement rally where Israeli flags were burned, and from there to the despicable murder at the Merkaz HaRav yeshiva, and from there to Ducha Stadium [where Israeli-Arab soccer fans cheered for the murderer of the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva students during a moment of silence –ed.] and from there to the rock attacks on the roads.
“The same series of events, the same weakness, the same inability to deal with the same mourners' tent. What mourners' tent? People are coming to identify with terrorists. The family hangs Hamas flags and they talk about how it is impossible to punish innocents…Not a single member of the family has apologized and not a single Israeli-Arab Knesset member has condemned the attack. Abu Mazen I heard, but not a single Arab MK – and it won’t happen.”