Arab MK slams the Arabs volunteering to IDF

Israel Beitenu set up a Knesset meeting to discuss wider involvement of Israeli Arabs into the National Service, a replacement of the IDF conscription. No one imagines Arabs joining the IDF to fight for Israel. Israel Beitenu cites unspecified polls stating that 76% of Israeli Arabs would like to volunteer for the National Service but are intimidated by Israeli Arab organizations. Though the 76% figure seems vastly exaggerated, many Arabs indeed want to join the National Service which is unburdensome and allows better job opportunities. An Arab MK from Balad Party slammed Lieberman, declared that “Arab society will consider every volunteer a traitor and a leper.”
Balad means “Motherland,” and the Arabs surely don’t mean Israel.