Effi Eitam MK Advocates Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing

Last Sunday, Effi Eitam the former leader of the Israeli National Religious Party and member of the Israeli Parliament, said:

"We have to expel most Arabs from Judea and Samaria. We can't deal with all these Arabs, and we can't give up the territory, because we've already seen what they do there. Some of them might have to stay under certain conditions, but most of them will have to go."
Eitam also launched a pointed attack at Arab Knesset members, whom he labeled "traitors.""We've got to remove Israeli Arabs from the political scene. We've allowed a fifth column to grow here - a group of traitors. We can't have a hostile group like this in our political system," said Eitam.

It is undoubtedly true that many Israeli Arabs are not loyal to the state, irredentist and treasonous. The MKs whom they elect to the Knesset are by and large a bunch of traitors who should be shot, though I expect these MKs are more extreme than their electors.

But – removing Israeli Arabs from the political scene? How can that be done? Apart from stripping them of their civil right to vote as Israeli citizens, it can't.

There are at least 1 million Arabs in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). Eitam says most of them will have to go. So now he's on the record as calling for the ethnic cleansing of at least half a million people.

I'm not sure which is more despicable – the open call to fascism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing, or the fact that an Israeli political leader is prepared to indulge his constituency in this kind of wild fantasizing. Israel needs more reality and less fantasy. This mad self-indulgence on both right and left (these days it is mainly on the right) is destroying the country.

At least Eitam has come out and revealed openly his real agenda. Let Israelis take a good look and see just how dark and filthy it is.

Israelis who were against the disengagement like to say that now we have ethnically cleansed Gaza of Jews, we can discuss ethnically cleansing Israel of Arabs (of course, they rarely turn the logic on its head and say that as they have been discussing the transfer of Arabs, why not discuss the transfer of Jews). But the comparison is not valid, because the object of the disengagement was not to rid Gaza of Jews, it was for the drawing of the border of the State of Israel. Of course without the IDF the Jews in Gaza could not have survived, so the forced evacuation of Israeli from Gaza was an application of the principle of not leaving soldiers in the field. Tempting as it would have been to leave people behind, it would have been grossly irresponsible.

Let any Israeli who votes for a list including Eitam be aware of exactly what they are voting for.