Israel’s attorney general lashed out at an Israeli Arab legislator for remarks he made against Israel at a memorial service for the late Syrian President Hafez Assad in Syria on Sunday. At the service, Azmi Beshara called on Arab countries and Islamic militants to increase their resistance against the Jewish state.
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