And here more about it, that's why he's getting mad:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/world ... -vote.html
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Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s nationalist foreign minister, stared coolly at the Arab politician sitting at the opposite end of a glass table during a televised election debate.
“Why did you come to this studio, why not to Gaza, or Ramallah? Why are you even here?” asked Mr. Lieberman, who frequently calls Israel’s Arab citizens traitors and suggests that their towns be transferred to Palestinian control. “You are not wanted here; you are a Palestinian citizen.”
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The politician, Ayman Odeh, the leader of an alliance of Arab parties formed to contest Israeli elections on Tuesday, appeared unruffled.
“I am very welcome in my homeland,” he said, a subtle dig at Mr. Lieberman, an immigrant from the former Soviet republic of Moldova. “I am part of the nature, the surroundings, the landscape,” he said in Arabic-accented Hebrew.
Rings a bell? The early Americans didn't want the indigenous and blacks to have suffrage as well.
Quote:
Now, polls cited by the Israeli media suggest the Arab alliance is likely to become the third-largest faction in Parliament with 13 of its 120 seats, potentially preventing Mr. Netanyahu from cobbling together the 61 seats he needs to form a coalition and stay in power. The same polls show that Mr. Lieberman may have more trouble getting his own Yisrael Beiteinu party across the 3.25 percent threshold he designed
The solution to prevent that? Behead them.
Lieberman's call is quite pragmatic, elections-wise.
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On the campaign trail, Mr. Odeh invokes the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and quotes Palestinian poetry as he preaches coexistence with the Jewish majority.
“We want to throw our weight as a people into politics. We want to build institutions for our people,” Mr. Odeh told high school students on March 7 in Ibillin, an Arab town in the hills of the Galilee.
“We need to extend bridges to the Jewish community,” he added. “Martin Luther King fought for blacks, and democratic whites were with him.”