Last update - 00:00 06/10/2007
MK Gal-On blasts Lieberman's comparison of leftists, Nazis
By Haaretz Service
The chairwoman of the Knesset Meretz faction, MK Zahava Gal-On, called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to dismiss Avigdor Lieberman from the cabinet after he compared leftists to Nazi collaborators.
Lieberman, Yisrael Beiteinu chairman and minister of strategic affairs, said on Channel One television Friday evening that anyone who breaks the "national consensus" or incites against Israel abroad reminds him of kapos during World War Two.
Kapos were prisoners in Nazi concentration camps who worked as guards and were known for their brutality.
Israel Radio reported that Gal-On responded by saying Lieberman is employing incitement that is reminiscent of that leading to the death of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at the hands of extreme rightist Yigal Amir in 1995.