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Liberman: " Tibi is using the international forum to hurt Israel's name and status,"

Arguing that Adolf Hitler too was elected democratically, Yisrael Beytenu head MK Avigdor Lieberman called for the dismissal of Tibi from his position as deputy Knesset speaker after Tibi told Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, during her diplomatic visit to Qatar, that Israel is an "apartheid state."

"Any parliament that respects itself would not let this happen. Tibi is using the international forum to hurt Israel's name and status," the right-wing party leader said.

When Lieberman was told that Tibi was elected by the Knesset democratically, he answered that "Hamas were also chosen democratically and so was Hitler."

Lieberman added that "this is not about democracy. We are more like the Republic of Weimar than a democracy."

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