Haneen Zoabi: 'attacks will end when Palestinians collectively find a better way to resist.'

Haneen Zoabi has told Middle East Eye's reporter Jonathan Cook that Netanyahu intentionally misrepresented her remarks by suggesting she had supported violent attacks within Israel/Palestine.

“I was arguing the opposite: that Palestinians in the occupied territories need to concentrate on a popular, non-violent intifada as a way to raise their morale and liberate themselve," she siad.

“The stabbings we see every day are an expression of individual Palestinians’ sense of frustration and hopelessness. The attacks will end when Palestinians collectively find a better way to resist.”

Of the attacks on her and the Islamic Movement, whom Netanyahu has attempted to ban, she said: “Netanyahu is falling back on his favourite trick – creating an enemy to generate fear among his followers. He has lost the issue of Iran, so now he needs me and the Islamic Movement.”

“His hysterical aggression really reflects the fact that he is growing ever more politically impotent.”