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== Terrorist connection ==

== Terrorist connection ==

Ever since its foundation Meretz has longstanding ties with terrorist individuals and groups. Shulamit Aloni, who would later become one of the party's Members of Knesset and its first leader<ref name="MeretK1" />, met [[Yasir Arafat]] and other top [[PLO]] officials.<ref>[http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1989_608229/3-plo-officials-get-visas-for-new-york-conference.html 3 PLO officials get visas for New York conference - Houston Chronicle]</ref> She would meet with Arafat again in 2002 at his compound.<ref>[http://www.haaretz.com/news/a-g-orders-probe-of-shulamit-aloni-s-visit-to-yasser-arafat-1.35896 http://www.haaretz.com/news/a-g-orders-probe-of-shulamit-aloni-s-visit-to-yasser-arafat-1.35896]</ref>

Ever since its foundation Meretz has longstanding ties with terrorist individuals and groups. Shulamit Aloni, who would later become one of the party's Members of Knesset and its first leader<ref name="MeretK1" />, met [[Yasir Arafat]] and other top [[PLO]] officials in 1989.<ref>[http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1989_608229/3-plo-officials-get-visas-for-new-york-conference.html 3 PLO officials get visas for New York conference - Houston Chronicle]</ref> She would meet with Arafat again in 2002 at his compound.<ref>[http://www.haaretz.com/news/a-g-orders-probe-of-shulamit-aloni-s-visit-to-yasser-arafat-1.35896 http://www.haaretz.com/news/a-g-orders-probe-of-shulamit-aloni-s-visit-to-yasser-arafat-1.35896]</ref>

Former Meretz member of Knesset Haim Oron is a good friend of convicted murderer and terrorist [[Marwan Barghouti]] and has visited him in prison several times.<ref>[http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=214328 Marwan Barghouti, Amos Oz, Haim Oron and a tale of darkness - The Jerusalem Post]</ref> Fidel Castro's regime, which is supportive of of Palestinian terrorism<ref>[http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y02/apr02/15e6.htm Castro's Anti-Semitism and the PLO]</ref>, had also kept ties with Meretz. David Rot, a member of the party who had an instrumental role in fostering its ties with the Castro regime, received a medal from the Cuban government in 1999.<ref>[http://www.davidrot.com/history.php history of David Rot]</ref>

Former Meretz member of Knesset Haim Oron is a good friend of convicted murderer and terrorist [[Marwan Barghouti]] and has visited him in prison several times.<ref>[http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=214328 Marwan Barghouti, Amos Oz, Haim Oron and a tale of darkness - The Jerusalem Post]</ref> Fidel Castro's regime, which is supportive of of Palestinian terrorism<ref>[http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y02/apr02/15e6.htm Castro's Anti-Semitism and the PLO]</ref>, had also kept ties with Meretz. David Rot, a member of the party who had an instrumental role in fostering its ties with the Castro regime, received a medal from the Cuban government in 1999.<ref>[http://www.davidrot.com/history.php history of David Rot]</ref>

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