MK Danny Danon (Likud) lambasted Justice Minister Tzipi Livni Wednesday over a bureaucratic maneuver that stalled a vote on a bill that would make it possible to dismiss enemy-supporting MKs from the Knesset. The bill is tailored to make it possible to fire MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad), who has repeatedly expressed support and understanding for terrorism.
After Livni filed an appeal against a procedural issue relating to the so-called Zoabi Bill, Danon attacked her in the plenum, asking – “Tzipi Livni, have you decided to serve as the devil's advocate?”
"Tzipi Livni, I can't believe how low you've sunk,” Danon declaimed. “You, who were raised in a revisionist home, who were a part of the Herut and Likud movement – you are serving in the government and Knesset as the advocate for the enemy of the people, the supporter of terrorists, the supporter of Israel's most criminal enemies?”
"Advocate Tzipi Livni – have you deicded to serve as the advocate of the devil, Hanin Zoabi? I think that it is proper that you get up today and do what your party-colleague Amir Peretz did, and resign from the government. In view of your actions in general, and today's action in particular – your place is no longer among us.”
Zoabi took part in the Mavi Marmara terror flotilla in 2010, and recently called the IDF soldiers who boarded the Marara "murderers." She is infamous for provocative speeches, including one in which she said that Israel has “no right to a normal life” and a later address claiming that “the Israeli occupation” was behind the murder of Israelis in Bulgaria.
More recently, Zoabi wrote an article encouraging Hamas on the terror group's website, and was briefly handcuffed during violent pro-Palestinian protests in Haifa.
Before the latest national election, the Central Elections Committeebanned Zoabi from running for the Knesset, under a clause requiring candidates and parties not to work against Israel's character as a Jewish, democratic state. However, the Supreme Court later overturned the decision and allowed Zoabi to run.