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=== News Update ===
05/11/2006
Racist : Lieberman 'Trade' Arabs for a 'homogenous' Israel
By Haaretz Service
Cabinet minister Avigdor Lieberman Sunday stood behind remarks in which
he said that Israel's Arab minority was a "problem" which required
"separation," declaring that Israel must redraw its map to "exchange"
part of the Arab population, in order to create a more "homogenous
Jewish state."
"If we want to safeguard Israel's character as a Jewish and Zionist
state, there is no other solution," Lieberman told Army Radio, saying
that the separation should be "consensual."
"The reason for the [Israeli-Palestinian] conflict is not territory, not
occupation, not settlers or settlements, rather friction between the two
peoples and the two religions.
"Everywhere, the world over, no matter if it's the former Yugoslavia or
the Caucasus region in Russia, or Northern Ireland, wherever there are
two peoples and two religions, there is friction."
According to Lieberman, Israel had no alternative but to move toward
"Exchanges of populations and territory, in order to create the most
homogenously Jewish state."
Referring to the Nazi-era term Judenrein, describing an area from which
all Jews have been removed, Lieberman said:
"I don't understand why the Palestinians deserve a state which is
'Judenrein' - after all, we obligated ourselves to create a Palestinian
state 'clean' of all Jews, to evacuate all settlements and all the Jews
from there to create a homogenous state - while we turn into a bi-
national country in which more than 20 percent of those within the state
of Israel are minorities."
MKs urge Lieberman's dismissal
Lieberman's remarks stirred immediate responses from furious
politicians.
MK Ahmed Tibi (Ra'am-Ta'al) told Haaretz that Israeli Arabs are the salt
of the earth, while Lieberman is nothing but an invader."
MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) called for the immediate dismissal of Lieberman
from the government in light of what he called "racist comments."
Lieberman has often made remarks condemned as racist toward Israel's
Arab minority, which numbers some one and a quarter million people.
In June, he was widely quoted as saying that Arab MKs who held contacts
with Hamas should be executed.
'Cyprus is the best model'
"Minorities are the biggest problem in the world," the Sunday Telegraph
quoted Lieberman as saying. Asked by the newspaper if citizens of Arab
descent should be forced out through territorial redistribution, he
said:
"I think separation between two nations is the best solution. Cyprus is
the best model. Before 1974, the Greeks and Turks lived together and
there were frictions and bloodshed and terror.
"After 1974, they constituted all Turks on one part of the island, all
Greeks on the other part of the island and there is stability and
security."
Told that in Cyprus thousands were forcibly driven from their homes, he
replied: "Yes, but the final result was better."
The newspaper said that an aide to Lieberman later sought to expand on
his remarks.
"Israeli Arabs don't have to go," the unnamed aide was quoted as saying.
"But if they stay they have to take an oath of allegiance to Israel as a
Jewish Zionist state."
Montreal Muslim News Network - http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
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