U OF WINDSOR STUDENTS PROTEST LECTURE BY ISRAEL’S FIRST BEDOUIN DIPLOMAT

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10. No, he's an Arab who made a career out of excusing racism against Arabs

Khaldi isn’t just any Foreign Service officer. Since June 2009, he has worked directly under Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s far-right foreign minister known for proposing policies seen by many as hostile to the state’s Arab citizens. But Khaldi speaks highly of his boss. “I think he is one of the most realistic, of course, but honest and direct politicians in Israel,” he said of Lieberman.

Lieberman’s party, Yisrael Beiteinu, proposes, among other things, a peace plan with the Palestinians by which Arab citizens of Israel living in certain parts of the country would lose their Israeli citizenship and become citizens of a fledgling Palestinian state. Asked his view of this stand and others that the party took during the 2009 elections, Khaldi responded, “First of all, nothing about it is illegal, nothing about it is anti-democratic.” His reaction was similar when asked about the proposed loyalty oath bill being advanced in the Knesset. The bill, first proposed in slightly modified form by Lieberman, would require new non-Jewish citizens to swear allegiance to a Jewish state.

http://forward.com/news/133327/ishmael-khaldi-a-bedouin-a-muslim-and-an-unlikely/

This is like a Mexican working for Donald Trump. Even less respectable than Condi Rice.