The Jerusalem Post reports (24 June) on remarks by Salah Salim, an Israeli parliamentarian from the Hadash communist party, who said Tuesday that Arab land dealers who sell to Jews should be "killed off and made into meatballs."

Knesset Member Salim, an Israeli Arab, had been arguing with colleagues on the Knesset Interior Committee during a visit to Jerusalem's Old City. "I'm amazed at the Palestinians," he said. "Why have they stopped eliminating land-dealers? They should be killed off and made into meatballs. Go ahead and record it well! Why have they stopped killing the treacherous land-dealers, who are betraying their people?"

The row began with a heated argument over the rights of Jews to live in the Moslem Quarter of the Old City. Knesset Member Nissan Slomiansky of the National Religious Party said Arabs have a democratic right to sell land to whomever they like, whereupon Salim implied that Arabs selling land to Jews should be murdered.

"I think it's amazing - it's beyond my imagination - to hear openly in front of the media [a Knesset Member] say that we have to kill Israeli citizens because they are real estate agents," commented Knesset Member Benny Elon of Moledet, another participant in the shouting match.

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