A liberal Israeli lawmaker called Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a fascist for saying Arab citizens threaten the Jewish state. “We have seen the dream of anti-Semites worldwide realized — a Hebrew Jorg Haider, a Hebrew Le Pen,” the Meretz Party’s Yossi Sarid said Thursday, referring to the notorious Austrian and French ultranationalists.
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