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| Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara speaking on December 11, 2016, at the fourth annual Im Tirtzu ‘Zionist Conference for Human Rights’ in Tel Aviv. (Dov Lieber / Times of Israel) |
From: Times of Israel
Ayoub Kara, in charge of strengthening Israel’s connections with regional neighbors, calls Jewish state a ‘paradise’ for Arabs.
There are ministers in the Palestinian Authority secretly hoping that a Palestinian state won’t be established, Deputy Minister of Regional Cooperation Ayoub Kara said on Sunday night.
“I sit with ministers in the Palestinian Authority, and they are pleading that there won’t be a Palestinian state,” Kara, who leads Israel’s diplomatic efforts to strengthen relations with its regional neighbors, claimed. He did not specify which ministers he spoke with.
There are currently no Palestinian Authority ministers on record who oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The deputy minister’s statements came during the annual “Zionist Conference for Human Rights,” organized by the right-wing organization, Im Tirtzu, which battles what it sees as delegitimization of Israel.
During this year’s conference, the fourth in the group’s history, Im Tirtzu aimed to highlight Israel’s “integration of minorities,” meaning the mostly Arabic-speaking non-Jewish community, who comprise around 20 percent of Israel’s population.
Kara, who is a Druze citizen of Israel and a long-time member of the ruling Likud party, maintained “Israel is a paradise, without the 72 virgins, for all Arabs in Israel — and even in the Palestinian Authority,” to the applause and laughter of the around 200 people in attendance.
“In no other place in the Middle East are minorities growing,” Kara said.
The deputy minister also heaped praise on to one of the conference’s main guests, Father Gabriel Naddaf, who in recent years has campaigned for Christians in Israel to join the Israeli army.
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