ISRAEL

Aljazeera: Israeli Minister Wants Total
Palestinian-Arab 'Cleansing'

An Israeli cabinet minister has called for the expulsion of some 1.3 million Palestinian citizens of Israel who constitute nearly one fifth of the state?s population.

Transportation Minister Avigdor Lieberman said during an interview with the Israeli army radio (Gali Tzahal) on Sunday that the "Arabs of Israel" should be expelled in case a Palestinian state was established and Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip were dismantled.

Israeli officials, from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon downward, refused to condemn the remarks, suggesting a sympathy with Lieberman?s ideas.

"Israel, die einzige "Demokratie" im Nahen Osten". Mann stelle sich den Aufschrei vor, wenn ein Regierungsmitglied in einem anderen Land ein Statement abgeben würde in dem er dazu aufruft alle Jüdischen Staatsangehörigen aus dem Land zu vertreiben. Faschismus made in Israel