The Israeli Right is up in arms over Joint Arab List chairman Ayman Odeh appearing with Hamas and Fatah representatives at a conference earlier this week opposing Israel's plan to apply sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and settlements in Judea and Samaria.
"An MK taking part in an event in support of terrorism, with Israel's worst enemies, is insufferable and I am not willing to accept it," said Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin.
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Levin noted that the Knesset has disqualified MKs who cooperate with the enemy from running for election, but those decisions have been overturned repeatedly by the Supreme Court.
Levin's colleagues in the Likud party voiced similar sentiments.
MK Michal Shir reached out to Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit and asked him to investigate Odeah, adding that at the event in question, Fatah and Hamas had announced "an intifada against the state of Israel."
"An MK participating in that conference, without clearly opposing violence, is like actual incitement to terrorism," Shir said.
MK Shlomo Karai (Likud) filed a complaint about Odeh's appearance at the conference with the Knesset Ethics Committee, characterizing it as "support for terrorism" and asking that the committee take severe disciplinary steps against Odeh.
Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Lieberman said, "Odeh took part in a virtual conference held by Fatah and Hamas about Netanyahu's virtual annexation. I hope that Odeh and his friends become 'virtual,' just like the conference."
The event in question was an online joint press conference at which senior Palestinian Authority official Jibril Rajoub attacked the Israeli plan, saying, "We will use all the necessary tools in order to reach national unity."
He added that "we and Hamas have had a cordial dialog and we have reached a point in which we want all factions to collaborate together to further our national goals." He vowed to "continue fighting as part of our struggle for a sovereign state."
Appearing via video feed from Beirut, Hamas deputy political leader Saleh Arouri focused on Israel, saying: "If they manage to implement the annexation plan in the West Bank this will whet their appetite for annexation of other areas; after annexing, Israel will have to deal with the Palestinian issue in the West Bank, and it has already used expulsion and uprooting before. Israel sees the West Bank as the Promised Land, and they are ready to carry out dangerous maneuvers there."
Rajoub also said that "for us, an intifada is a tool. The goal is to end the occupation and take annexation off the table."
Representatives of Odeh said that he had attended the conference in order to promote intra-Palestinian reconciliation.
"Keeping up the rifts serves only those who want to continue the occupation and establish apartheid," the message said. "Anyone who supports the two-state solution should also support reconciliation."
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