Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana caused a storm on Tuesday after Kan News published a video of remarks he made in a high school in Efrat on Monday.
In response to a question by one of the students about why he works together with the Islamist Ra’am party, he said: “If there was a button you could push that would make all the Arabs disappear, send them on an express train to Switzerland, I would press that button.”
“But there’s no such button. Apparently, we’re meant to exist [together] on this land in some way.”
Kahana continued: “In my view, the idea that if we return to the ’67 lines, there will be two states here that will live in peace with each other – I think it’s nonsense. They will never give up Beit Gamliel and Sheikh Munis – Tel Aviv University.”
“The Arabs tell themselves a different story, we know it’s not true and that it’s nonsense. They tell themselves that they’re the ones who have always lived here and we came and expelled them.”
Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi responded to the comments by stating: “There’s a button that will remove you from the government and the Knesset. I’ll press it soon.”
Kahana subsequently called Tibi and apologized for his remarks, a move that was slammed by his fellow Yamina MK, Abir Kara as being “a mistake.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Funny how whenever Arabs blatantly and openly say the same or similar about Jews, not only does no one care, but they actually are supported by many.
then do it. let us all see where that big mouth has a road too….
Why would he send the Arabs to Switzerland? Aren’t there enough Arab countries?
This phony is definitely not a גלגול of Moreinu hoRav מאיר Kahana זצקללה”ה הי”ד who was an absolute צדיק גמור
“Kahana subsequently called Tibi and apologized” When did Lieberman ym”s or any of his cohorts apologies to the chareidim?
When I read the headline, I thought Kahana was proposing genocide. I am pleased that he did not actually do that. Maybe YWN should be more careful with its headlines.
By the laws of Hashem if there were a button we could push that would make all the Arabs illegally occupying E. YISRAEL to instantly faint and never wake up, because of the ענין of פיקוח נפש of the Yiddishe population we would be מחויב to press it…
And yes that means even the good ones.