Lieberman: 'Surgically remove' Israeli Arabs

Cabinet minister Avigdor Lieberman Sunday stood behind remarks in which he said that Israel's Arab minority was a "problem" which required "separation" from the Jewish state, declaring that Israel must "hold a surgical removal once and for all."

"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."

"I don't understand why the Palestinians deserve a state which is 'Judenrein' - 'clean' of all Jews - while we turn into a bi-national country in which more than 20 percent of those within the state of Israel are minorities."

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"If we still have to face daily terror attacks after conceding lands, the system must be changed ? the more we give away the further away we'll push ourselves from peace," Lieberman told the radio.

"If we follow the advice of the left, we'll end up with Arab autonomies in the Galilee and in the Negev. We must hold a surgical removal once and for all," he said.

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

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/783926.html

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