Minister without Portfolio Salah Tarif, a Labor party MK who today became the first non-Jew to serve as a minister in an Israeli government, has been cited for several anti-Israel comments. A few weeks ago, he granted an interview to Palestinian television in which he called the Palestinian terrorists imprisoned in Israel \"captives,\" he said that Sharon had \"defiled the Al-Aksa Mosque with his visit [to the Temple Mount],\" and said that Druze citizens should not have to serve in the army. Minister Tarif also sent good wishes to Hamas terrorist chief Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, and blessed his interviewers that they should \"reach Jerusalem, with the help of Allah.\" Palestinian Media Watch supplied tape recordings of the interview to Arutz-7.