Communications Minister Ayoub Kara has been receiving death threats over his support for the new nation-state law. 

By: World Israel News Staff

Israeli Minister of Communications Ayoub Kara, a member of the Druze minority, accused members of the Joint Arab List political party and of his own community of sending him death threats over his support of nation-state law last week, which defines Israel as a Jewish State.

Speaking to IDF Radio Monday, Kara said he has been receiving threats from the Druze threatening to “erase his children and family.”

“I am not moving from my position,” he added.

He also accused MKs who petitioned the High Court of Justice against the law as “being populists,” noting that one of them was a co-signatory on the bill.

Relating to threats during a meeting on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “I support you and your family and thank you for your loyalty. The nationality law does not harm our Druze brothers.”

Kara clarified that “those [MKs] who incite against me and against the law of nationality are members of the [Arab] Joint List,” Arutz 7 reported.

The high number of threats Kara has been receiving prompted the Defense Ministry’s Magen unit to provide him with further security.

“I am not deterred by the incitement and the threats against me and my family and am not afraid,” said Kara. “I will continue to represent the members of my community with dignity and pride – I did in the past and will do so in the future.”

“The nation-state law does not turn us into second class citizens – on the contrary, it complements and does not contradict the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty. The new law in no way detracts from the individual rights guaranteed to all the citizens of Israel,” he continued.

“The nationality law also grants special status to the Arabic language, which will not be harmed, and regulates its use in state institutions. I continue to stand behind my vote – and threats to my life will not change my firm nationalist and Zionist views,” stressed Kara.

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The spokesperson for Egypt’s president rejected assertions made by an Israeli minister over a week ago suggesting that there was an Egyptian plan to create a Palestinian state in the Sinai peninsula.

The spokesman for Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Alaa Youssef, said on Thursday that no plan exists in the government to propose the creation of a Palestinian state in the Sinai peninsula.

“It’s unimaginable to get into such unrealistic and unacceptable proposals especially in Sinai, which is a dear part of the nation,” he said.

Israeli-Druze Minister Ayoob Kara had claimed ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump last week, that both leaders would adopt such a plan that had been reportedly suggested by Sisi in 2014.

“Trump and Netanyahu will adopt the plan of Egypt’s Sisi: A Palestinian state in Gaza and Sinai. instead of Judea and Samaria,” Kara had written on Twitter.

Israel took control over the Sinai peninsula during the Six-Day War of 1967. Twelve years later, Israel agreed to incrementally withdraw from the territory in a peace agreement with Egypt.

By: World Israel News Staff

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