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Publication: IsraelNationalNews
Date: February 9, 2004
URL: www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=57563
Dr. David Bukay of Haifa University's
Political Science Department was asked on Arutz-7 today his opinion of
the growing phenomenon of Israeli-Arab terrorist cells. "It's no longer
a matter of 'wild weeds,'" he said this morning, after the sixth such cell
in a year was uncovered yesterday, "but rather a common phenomenon. Hizbullah
is the new big leader, starting with Israel's retreat from Lebanon, and
now Balad and Islamic Jihad are now blatantly Hizbullah movements."
Balad, it should be noted, is an
Israeli political party with three Knesset Members - two of whose leading
members were arrested yesterday on suspicion of plotting to build a Hizbullah-funded
terrorist infrastructure in Israel. "It's clear," Bukay continued, "that
[Hizbullah leader] Nasrallah wants to turn Lebanon into a Shiite state
like Iran, and, of course, to march on Jerusalem and destroy Israel. He
is building his arsenals and capabilities towards this goal, and we have
to be blind not to see this. Nasrallah has been proven to be right in telling
the Arab world that the way to defeat Israel is by force, as was proven
in our withdrawal."
Asked about the phenomenon of the
Israeli-Arab political parties, Bukay said, "Balad should be outlawed,
but not because of the latest incident. We are the only democracy in the
world with Arab religious sectarian parties that all identify themselves
as Palestinian. This is insane. There are three Arab parties in the Knesset,
all working with different strategies to destroy the State of Israel. Such
a phenomenon is unheard of in other Western countries."
