Talk to Jazeera - Azmi Bishara - 23 Apr 07 - Part 2

Al Jazeera talks to Azmi Bishara, a former Arab member of the Israeli Knesset.

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[mahapal]

AZMI...we are with you! don't worry, it is the case of all great men!

[ArabWithAllPride]

He is very intelligent and articulate, may God protect him.

In formal Arabic speech you refer to yourself as "we", but I think in English it's more acceptable to use "I".

[tarfelagund]

"the case of democracy will win in the arab world in the end"

[dmokhtar]

@colvx92 my gripes are not with a congressmen or knesset member expressing anger/upset/critique with the governing country body. My gripes are in the tone simply... frankly, after a month I don't recall exactly the statements said that prompted me to write my comments, but I have a vague recollection of walking away from the video with a sense of his tone being "Israel the enemy". that's a tone you don't find in any US congressman, even when challenging their country's shortcomings. blessings,

[dmokhtar]

@co my gripes are not with a congressmen or knesset member expressing anger, upset, critique, etc with the governing country body. My gripes are in the tone simply... frankly, after a month I don't recall exactly the statements said that prompted me to write my comments, but I have a vague recollection of walking away from the video with a sense of his tone being "Israel the enemy". that's a tone you don't find in any US congressman, even when challenging their country's shortcomings. blessings,

[colvx92]

@dmokhtar I know! This son of a bitch occupies the honorable knesset of israel and doesn't even share a splinter of gratitude for allowing him to serve! This ingrate doesn't even play to role of a second class citizen but instead acts as if he is on the same level or playing field as the jews? The nerve. The goddamn nerve! Secondly, your second comment about Saudi Arabia and Lebanon was ingenious. How dare the state of israel allow their parliamentary members to speak as if this is a democracy?

[dmokhtar]

What a chutzpah. I'd like to see a jewish member of a parliament in Saudi Arabia or Lebanon get up and say half of the insults he's said about the mother country. How long do you think he'd last... and this ingrate has the nerve to say that all the years israel gave him a place and position in the Israeli Knesset is "no big deal or achievement".. the nerve

[ofri75]

@alrazy12 - It is, and we like our democracy! :) In israel you can say what you want, bitch about whatever you like, pray to Judaism / Islam / Christianity... Arabs can go and study in our universities... we are more democratic than the USA!

עם ישראל חי :)

[alrazy12]

@ofri75 israel isnt a democracy that is the biggest lie in history

[ofri75]

@petersz98 - I am glad you put at the end "LOL" - meaning you know you're only joking... :)

And now seriously - if he was innocent he wouldn't be escaping and running away from the country he was born and raised, and moved to terror countries like Saudi-Arabia, and Lebanon, where he lives now, with Hezbollah... He was a spy of Hezbollah. Israel is a democracy, and everyone can have legal representation, but he just decided to escape because he KNEW he was guilty