An Israeli Arab lawmaker drew fire for defending Palestinian hostage-takers. In a online chat with readers of a popular Muslim Web site last week, Wasil Taha of the Arab party Balad spoke in favor of the “option” exercised by the Palestinian “resistance” to abduct Israeli soldiers in operations such as the June 25 cross-border raid from Gaza. He also accused Israel and the United States of waging “war against Islam.”
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