In the Knesset plenary session, a vote will take place on Monday regarding the dismissal of the Chairman of Hadash-Ta’al, Ayman Odeh. In recent days, his office has reached out to opposition members who have not yet made clear how they will vote and warned: “Today it’s Odeh, tomorrow such dismissal processes will be directed at you.”<\/p>\n
Kan Reshet Bet reported that Odeh’s message to opposition MKs is that a vote against him will be seen as a challenge to the liberal voter base, which is associated with the parties comprising the opposition.<\/p>\n
The Yesh Atid and National Camp parties include MKs who refuse to vote in favor of the dismissal, so it seems that a majority of 90 MKs to complete the process will not be achieved.<\/p>\n
Odeh, who had already criticized the Knesset committee’s decision to approve the dismissal about two weeks ago, claims that opposition members “cooperated with Netanyahu and the Kahanists” and are creating a reality in which democracy is being undermined.<\/p>\n
“They hate us more than they love democracy,” said Odeh, adding that now is the moment to choose: “Either you fight – or you surrender.”<\/p>\n
In a preliminary discussion in the Knesset Committee, all coalition party representatives supported the proposal along with representatives from Yisrael Beitenu, Yesh Atid, and the National Camp.<\/p>\n
The dismissal request submitted by MK Avichai Boaron included a statement by Odeh on X from January, where he allegedly compared the hostages to terrorists, writing: “I am happy about the release of the hostages and prisoners. From here, both peoples must be freed from the burden of occupation. We are all free people.”<\/p>\n
The Knesset’s legal advisor, Attorney Sagit Afik, argued in the discussion that there is insufficient evidence to justify Odeh’s dismissal, “because we are dealing with a single statement, and for this reason alone, it can be argued that the request is not based on a significant mass of clear evidence supporting armed struggle, its dominant support, or that MK Odeh is actively and consistently working to realize this support,” she said.<\/p>\n
According to her, “Given the narrow test, there is doubt whether this statement meets the criteria of supporting an armed struggle by a terrorist organization and the other requirements, including the understanding that this is a dominant feature in the aspirations of the MK, and whether there is a clear and unequivocal statement calling for active support of a terrorist organization.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the Knesset plenary session, a vote will take place on Monday regarding the dismissal of the Chairman…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26713,99,27269,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-64434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ayman-odeh","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-knesset","11":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}