Peter McGauran (Gippsland, National Party, Deputy Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

The crime is that he is anti-Semitic—that is the crime—and there is no dissociation of Mr Eideh by the Labor Party. He is a protege of Senator Kim Carr; he has been warmly endorsed publicly by the member for Melbourne. Let me read a bit more about Mr Eideh to show his unfitness for parliamentary service. In a speech in 2002 he said:

Satan’s brigades are getting ready to enslave the Arab world.

We could see the light of your soul in the face of the martyrs, the heroes, the greatest of free Arabs—those who carry the flag of dawn from South Lebanon and Palestine.

This is a supporter of Hezbollah and Hamas. You talk about the national interest; you stop that man entering public life.

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