Azmi Bishara to be Probed for Arranging Israeli Arabs’ Visits to Syria
Arab Member of Knesset, Azmi Bishara, seems too have endless problems with the Israeli government.
After a series of accusation of inciting anti-Israeli reactions among Israeli Arabs, the MK is expected to be investigated Wednesday by the Jerusalem district police, on suspicion of “arranging visits for Israeli Arabs in enemy countries.”
According to Haaretz, Bishara assisted Israeli Arabs to visit relatives in Syria, who fled the country in 1948, and have since not had any contact with them.
At the beginning of May, Bishara notified Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg that the police had notified him that he was to be interrogated.
In February the police said that it was opening investigations against Israeli Arabs who visited “enemy countries.” Many people have thus been interrogated, including many elderly ones, said the paper.
In a statement issued February, police sources stressed, “the involvement of public Arab leaders in the organization of such visits.”
Following the statement, Bishara stopped arranging the trips, but resumed shortly later, the paper claimed.
Bishara was in Damascus in April for a series of meeting with Syrian and Palestinian officials.
AFP said that he met with Foreign Minister Farouq Shara “on events in the region.”
The meeting took place to discuss "the developments in the region and the bloody events in the occupied Palestinian territories," said the Syrian press.
Likud Knesset Member, Ze’ev Boim, called to put Bishara on trial on his return for “subverting the state’s existence,” Israel Radio reported.
Bishara, head of the left-wing Israeli Arab party Balad, has visited Syria several times.
In November, he met with Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and condemned the "bloody events in Palestine.” – Albawaba.com
