Israeli-Arab Member of Knesset Haneen Zoabi (Balad) made headlines again this week when an Op-Ed she’d written appeared in felesteen, a Hamas-affiliated news website. Translated by The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the piece included Zoabi’s declaration that “‘Israel’ will in no way eliminate Hamas, the motives for the resistance or the motives for [pursuing] liberation from the occupation. She also praised Hamas rocket attacks for contributing to the elimination of “Israel’s belief that over the past decade it has successfully used these three important achievements – the fence, the siege and the security coordination – to control the situation and to cement a situation in which there is an occupation without an occupier.”Read More
