Speaking to Kol Chai Radio on Monday evening, Baruch Marzel reiterated his plan to appear at Um el-Fahm to report as a poll watcher on Election Day despite threats from leaders of the Israeli Arab municipality and statements from Israel Police officials who say they will not permit him to enter the community.

When asked why he insists on the provocative act, Marzel explained that he is making a point, which is the painful fact that Israel has lost control over its Israeli Arab citizens, pointing out in Israeli Arab municipalities there is widespread illegal construction, the firing of weapons at random during weddings, and many other signs attesting to Israel’s loss of control in the Israeli Arab sector.
 
Longtime confidant of Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gavir explained “the leftists must learn that whatever they try to shove down the throats of the chareidi and Shomer Shabbos community that must receive in return. We learned from the Meretz protests on Bar Ilan Street on Shabbos and the High Court permitting the to’eva parade in Yerushalayim”. He went on to explain the leftist anti-Jewish position of the nation’s highest court.

Ben-Gavir went on to explain, “We took the High Court petitions of Meretz and Peace Now and submit them from our perspective, showing the court what is good to throw at the chareidim can also be thrown in the other direction. We, the Torah community, demand that we receive the same democracy as the leftists and the others”.

Marzel then explained the war is against those seeking to eradicate the Torah way of life. It is that simple he stressed, adding the accusation that he hates Arabs is not true. “I love Jews and direct my battle against those who seek to destroy the Jewish way of life. I am not a racist”.

Mendy Safdi, a member of Israel’s Druse community, number 21 on the Ichud HaLeumi list, heads the Druse Forum for Eretz Yisrael and is a known fighter for a Greater Eretz Yisrael. He had nothing but words of praise for Marzel. Safdi stated that just as an Arab poll watcher is permitted to sit in Bet El, there is no reason that Mazel cannot sit in Um el-Fahm. “Why is he any different than Ahmed” questions Safdi. “Is this an apartheid state?”

Marzel concluded by stating Safdi is a true Ger Toshav as the Halacha explains the concept, quoting the Rambam, adding he fought tenaciously against the expulsion of Jews from their homes in Gaza and N. Shomron.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)