Knesset member Ahmed Tibi told Fatah supporters to “continue the struggle” against Israel until a Palestinian state is established. According to Ha’aretz, the deputy speaker of the Knesset, Avshalom Vilan, from the left-wing Meretz Party, said Tibi went too far in a speech at the Ramallah rally last week because the word “struggle” generally is a code word for terrorism.
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