Israeli MP: I wish there was button that would take Arabs and put them on train to Switzerland
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Israeli occupation’s Deputy Religious Affairs Minister, Matan Kahana, said on Monday he wishes he could take all the Palestinians citizens of ‘Israel’ and put them on a train to Switzerland.
Sparking outrage on Tuesday, the member of Israeli occupation’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s right-wing Yamina party made the remarks in a speech at a high school in Efrat settlement, south of occupied Jerusalem.
In a clip aired by the Israel’s Kan public broadcaster, Kahana said, “If there was a button I could press that would take all the Arabs and put them on a train to Switzerland, I would.
“A button like that does not exist. Apparently we were destined to exist here [together] on this land in some form.”
Kahana was also heard in the clip expressing his opposition to the two-state solution, stating the idea that it would bring peace was “nonsense” since the Palestinians “will never give up Beit Gamliel and Sheikh Munis — Tel Aviv University,” referring to a Palestinian village whose residents were forcibly expelled from in 1948.
“The Arabs are telling themselves a different story, we know it’s untrue and nonsense,” Kahana claimed. “They are telling themselves that they are the ones who always lived here and we came and expelled them.”
סגן השר כהנא בתיעוד: אם הייתי יכול ללחוץ על כפתור ולהעלים את הערבים ברכבות אקספרס לשוויץ, הייתי לוחץ – כנראה נועדנו להתקיים כאן באיזושהי צורה@shemeshmicha #הבוקרהזה pic.twitter.com/6qGUtMKrzH
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) June 14, 2022
Trying later to justify his remarks which were slammed by several lawmakers, Kahana said: “Conversing with students yesterday, I referenced that both Jewish and Arab populations aren’t going anywhere.”
“As such, we must work to live in coexistence. Our coalition is a courageous step towards this goal. Within this larger discussion, a few of my statements were worded poorly,” Kahana wrote on Twitter.
בשיחה שקיימתי אמש עם תלמידים חזרתי על ההבנה המובנת מאליה שלא אנחנו ולא הערבים הולכים לשום מקום ולכן צריך למצוא דרך לחיות כאן ביחד.
הממשלה הנוכחית היא צעד חשוב בכיוון הזה.
בשטף דבריי היתה גם בחירת מילים לא מוצלחת.
פירוט טוב יותר של הרעיון שעמד מאחוריהם תוכלו למצוא בתגובה הראשונה— Matan Kahana מתן כהנא (@MatanKahana) June 14, 2022
