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To: paret who wrote (6733)	1/11/2005 9:31:26 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 22250

Court erupts over expert's testimony on `Arab mentality', by Yair Ettinger, Haaretz (Israel), December 23, 2004 "The Haifa District Court was thrown into disarray Wednesday during testimony given by an expert witness on behalf of the State Prosecution in a case involving the Islamic Movement. At the height of the uproar, Judge Micha Lindenstrauss ordered one of the five defendants, Dr. Suliman Agbariya, out the courtroom. In protest, the remaining defendants and their supporters left the courtroom, too, directing cries of "You're a Nazi" at the state's expert. "The Arab mentality is made of "a sense of being a victim," "pathological anti-Semitism," and "a tendency to live in a world of illusions," said Prof. Rafi Israeli, a lecturer in Middle Eastern studies at Hebrew University, on the witness stand Wednesday, adding that the Arabs neglect sanitation in their communities. "Most of the Arab villages are dirtier, physically - it's a fact," he said. Professor Israeli is the last of the prosecution's witnesses in the case against five Islamic Movement members accused of security and financial offenses. The defense initially requested that Israeli's testimony be rejected, claiming the professor is identified with the extreme right - but his testimony was heard .. During cross-examination Wednesday, Israeli was asked to respond to questions on a number of issues concerning his viewpoint on the Arabs in Israel, Islam in general, and the sketch he offered of the nature of "the Arab mentality." The cross-examination, handled by attorneys Avigdor Feldman and Riad Anis, focused on the opinion Israeli wrote for the prosecution and, primarily, on quotes from a book he published in 2002 in which he describes Israel's Arabs as a fifth column "that sucks on the udders of the country." Wednesday in the witness box, Israeli reiterated that the Arabs were "a burden on the state." haaretz.com