Joint List MKs Sure There Was A Law That Permits Minorities To Commit Treason

If the effort succeeds, it may allow former MK Azmi Bishara to return from self-imposed exile in Qatar.

Jerusalem, December 20 – Members of the Joint List alliance of mostly Arab parties in the Knesset spent Monday in an intense effort to find a law they could swear is on the books, a measure that allows an ethnic minority that considers itself persecuted to undermine the State by various means.

Following the publication of accusations that Balad-Party MK Basel Ghattas had smuggled mobile phones into prisons for Palestinians serving time or awaiting trial for various security crimes, Joint List lawmakers sprang into action, with several, including Ghattas himself, taking the traditional route of dismissing the reports as racist persecution, while the rest of the 13 legislators took up the quest to find the law that should by all rights permit Ghattas to engage in such activity because he is part of the Arab minority.

“It’s got to be here somewhere,” declared Raam-Taal MK Dr. Ahmad Tibi, leafing through an index of laws passed by the Knesset since 1949. “I just know it. How else could I explain so much of my own behavior over the years? It should be right here. Why can’t I find it?”

Balad MK Haneen Zoabi voiced similar exasperation at her and her aides’ inability to find the law they were all but certain is on the books. “Where did it go?” she wondered aloud. “Even Google is no help. Maybe there’s a Zionist conspiracy to hide the truth from the record?” she suggested.

Joint List Chairman Ayman Odeh submitted a formal request to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein for an audit of the code of laws to track down the law that allows MK Ghattas’s alleged actions. “We will get to the bottom of this,” he pronounced. “I have also instructed my staff to prepare a Freedom of Information Act request to be submitted to various government agencies in an effort to retrieve the records we all know are there – or that should be there, since we insist so hard on it. That’s the way things work with us, you understand.”

If the effort succeeds, it may allow former MK Azmi Bishara to return from self-imposed exile in Qatar, where he fled after it was discovered he had passed information to the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. Bishara did not respond to requests for comment, but a confidant who spoke on condition of anonymity reported that he had reservations about returning to Israel under the law without reassurances that the dispensation for committing treason does not also apply to groups of Jews who feel wronged.

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