"We couldn't have prevented an attack in which the attacker originates from Israel because in east Jerusalem there are Palestinians with blue identity cards (who can move about freely). How many more attacks will we need to go through in order to understand that this is freedom of movement is dangerous?" Knesset Member Dani Yatom rhetorically asked in Beersheba on Saturday.

Yatom addressed Thursday's terrorist attack on the Mercaz Harav seminary in Jerusalem that left eight dead saying: "(Israeli-Arabs) can get to any town in Israel. We must ensure some sort of supervision so those who live in east Jerusalem and have blue identity cards can't cross into Israel without regulation and monitoring.

There must be a division between residents of east and west Jerusalem," the Knesset member emphasized.

He added that someone that supports terrorism should not be granted national insurance allowances. "The terrorist's family should no longer receive national insurance payments," he declared.

Yatom also mentioned the rally that took place last week in Umm al-Fahm in which Israeli-Arabs burned an Israeli flag. He said that whoever burns Israeli flags is basically saying that Israel has no legitimacy and thus "should be punished."...

Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said Saturday night that Israel should create laws allowing for the expulsion of terrorists' families, even if they have Israeli citizenship.

Dichter's statements, part of an increasingly hard-line taken by the former Shabak chief since a Grad-type missile nearly hit his Ashkelon home, came in light of the support in Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods for the terrorist who murdered eight yeshiva students Thursday night.

Arab residents of Jerusalem have been involved in at least 20 percent of terrorist attacks against Israelis, Dichter said Saturday. Israel must find a way to expel terrorists and their families and to prevent them from making use of the freedom of movement granted by an Israeli ID card to harm the state, he said...

...Dichter's seemingly hard-line stance is limited to Arabs from eastern Jerusalem, raising suspicion that it is another way of calling for the division of Jerusalem along demographic lines...