TEL AVIV, April 28, 2010 (WAFA)- The Israeli Knesset may withdraw parliamentary immunity from six  Arab -Israeli lawmakers who traveled to Libya, daily Haaretz said, today .

The Knesset may withdraw parliamentary immunity from six lawmakers who traveled to Libya, to meet the country's leader Moammar Gadhafi, the chairman of the chamber's House Committee Yariv Levin said on Wednesday.

'Knesset immunity is not a license to inflict continual damage on the state and make a mockery of parliament and the public,' Levin said.

Levin said the Knesset's House Committee would debate at the earliest opportunity a measure to strip the members of their immunity, proposed by Michael Ben-Ari, an member for the rightist National Union party.

Gadhafi on Friday received an Arab-Israeli delegation including MKs Mohammed Barakeh, Ahmed Tibi, Talab al-Sana and Afu Aghbaria in his tent near the town of Serit, where he hosted the recent Arab League summit.

'What we have here is an historic opportunity to abolish once and for all the immunity and rights of Knesset members who hate Israel and denigrate the state,' Ben-Ari said.

Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin criticized the motion, which described the MKs who visited Libya as “traitors”.

But the speaker confirmed that he would forward Ban-Ari's request to the House Committee and authorize a debate on the issue after it emerged that parliamentary regulations left him powerless to oppose the measure.

All six members who traveled to Libya said they would boycott the discussion.

In response to Ben-Ari's motion, Tibi said: 'This is a bizarre and crazy debate in keeping with the atmosphere of persecution that emerges here time and again.'

He added: 'We will continue to preserve cultural and national ties with the Arab world, which is our natural constituency in our struggle for equality.