Anti-Arab remarks by a senior right-wing lawmaker stirred up controversy in Israel. Army Radio on Monday broadcast a speech in which Effi Eitam, a leader of the National Union-National Religious Party bloc, said most Palestinians in the West Bank should be deported and that Israeli Arabs should be excluded from national politics.
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