"Knesset is part of Zionist project"

The Islamic Movement in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands, the northern branch, renewed Friday its rejection to the participation in the upcoming Israeli Knesset election, considering the Israeli Knesset (parliament) as part of the Zionist project.

In a statement it issued in this regard, the Movement stressed that the Arab presence in the Israeli Knesset was exploited to beautify the Israeli institution.

It aims at blocking the Arab citizens’ protests to within the Knesset walls, the statement said.

The statement explained that the Israeli Knesset didn’t bring justice or push away any threat to the Palestinian people, and that it was instead working against the presence of the Palestinian people on their homeland.

“Since our Nakba, we have and still been subjected to an Israeli systematic discrimination and religious persecution as the Israeli institution considers our presence temporary.”

“The Israeli institution considers our presence on our homeland as temporary, and that it was waiting the proper time to transfer us according to its plans, and thus, our existence in our homeland would depend on how much we adhere to this land and remain insistent on our legal rights”, the Movement underlined.

Moreover, the Movement, which is headed by the prominent Palestinian leader Raed Salah, stressed that the Arab presence in the Israeli Knesset was badly exploited by the Zionist institution with the aim to beautify itself, and to cover for the Israeli brutal measures against the Palestinian people and the Arab and Muslim world.

“We call on every Palestinian citizen in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands to take those facts into consideration before participating in the Israeli elections”.

The Movement made it clear that it would remain firm and steadfast on the legal rights of the Palestinian people all over Palestine till the independent Palestinian state is established with Jerusalem as its capital.

Early elections for the twentieth Knesset will be held in Israel on 17 March 2015 with the participation of one Arab joint electoral list, while the Israeli Central Elections Committee decided at noon Thursday to disqualify the Arab MK Hanin Zoabi from running for the parliamentary elections.




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