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An Arab musician who sang publicly about his plans to be a suicide terrorist and “murder your mother and sister” will be investigated by police, thanks to the insistence of MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union).

Eldad told Arutz-7's Shimon Cohen that about six months ago, “at a festival in Haifa - entitled ‘Bringing Hearts Together,’ no less - this Arab gets up and sings, in English, ‘I am a proud Arab, a suicide terrorist, and I will murder your mother and sister.’”

“I immediately wrote a letter of complaint to the Attorney General," Eldad continued, "and I soon received a response from one of his aides saying that after considering the matter, they do not consider it appropriate to open an investigation against the organizers of the event.”

“I am used to these leftist answers – and there’s no other way to categorize them – but still, for some reason that day I got upset. I wrote back saying, ‘Who’s talking about the organizers? You have a musician who gets up and says he’s a suicide terrorist and plans to murder us! He needs to be detained and questioned!'”   

Eldad explained that all this was happening at the very time that Uri Bar’am was arrested for disseminating a video clip on the internet calling to harm State Deputy Prosecutor Shai Nitzan for allegedly prosecuting nationalist protestors almost exclusively. “I couldn’t understand this double standard,” Eldad said.

“Unbelievably, I received a letter a week ago, saying that they had reconsidered, and after consulting with Shai Nitzan, they decided to open an investigation against this Arab who says he is a suicide terrorist who will murder us.”

Asked to explain the phenomenon that the State Prosecution’s first reaction to cases of this nature is to indict only those who incite against the left but not against Jews or the nationalist camp, Eldad said, “These people are intelligent, and I am 100% convinced that their leftward tilt is simply so powerful that they honestly believe that they are doing the correct and just thing! They truly believe that incitement against Jews is not so serious, while incitement in the other direction must be prosecuted!..."

"I think that the more people complain and tell them that they are drunk, the more it is likely that this situation can be rectified," Eldad said.

MK Eldad feels that the reasons the police don’t rush to try to indict those who incite against Jews are different: “If time after time they are rebuffed, and the evidence that they produce does not lead to serious indictments, then they get discouraged and begin to think that either they’re wrong, or that it’s not worth their efforts to work hard and get rebuffed.”