Heba Yazbak would doubtless have no problem with Israel becoming an Islamic state. Her statements reveal the deceptiveness of the Palestinian Authority’s recognition of Israel’s right to exist. The PA’s recognition of Israel is a sham anyway, a semantic trick. The PA has never recognized Israel as a Jewish state. “We will never recognize the Jewishness of the state of Israel,” said Mahmoud Abbas in 2014. The PA recognizes Israel as having a right to exist as yet another Muslim Arab state, once its Jewish population is murdered, subjugated, and/or expelled. That’s all. Heba Yazbak appears to be on board with that program.
“Heba Yazbak: ‘We’ll divest Israel of its Jewishness and Zionism,'” by Dalit Halevi, Israel National News, March 18, 2020 (thanks to the Geller Report):
Video clips of two Arabic interviews given by MK Heba Yazbak (Joint Arab List) reveal her battle against Zionism and ambition to eliminate Zionism and the State of Israel’s Jewish and Zionist character….
In the second interview, Yazbak says, “At the same time as we are joining the Knesset in order to achieve civil rights that we can use. We in Balad (Yazbak’s faction in the Joint Arab List – ed.) are holding our compass strong – this is a state of all its citizens.”
“This plan opposes and fights the country’s Zionism and prides itself of divesting the country of its Jewish and Zionist existence, and at the same time preserves our national identity, without sacrificing full citizenship and without sacrificing citizenship.”
Yazbak has come under fire for praising terrorists who murdered Israelis, including expressing regret over the elimination of terrorist Samir Kuntar, who smashed the skull of four-year-old Einat Haran in the Nahariya terror attack in 1979, and whom she called a “hero.”