MK from the Joint List on Hamas: "In every occupation in the world there was resistance"

Dr. Faten Ghattas, number 3 on the Joint List, rejects Eisenkot's conditions, refuses to define Hamas as terror, and accuses the government of "great terror" against Arab citizens of Israel. The interview with BBC will air on Thursday.

Dr. Faten Ghattas, number 3 on the Joint Arab List, is stirring controversy in an interview with the BBC expected to air this Thursday. Ghattas rejects Gadi Eisenkot's conditions for joining the government, foremost among them recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, and demands "full equality" between the Arab and Jewish public. He refused to define Hamas as a terrorist organization, saying: "In every occupation in the world there was resistance." Ghattas accused the Israeli government of "great terror" against its Arab citizens and in the occupied territories. The interview also includes a claim that the government saw Arab citizens as a "fourth front in the war" during the elections.