Mansour Abbas
“We are examining the matter politically and legally, and assessing the situation and the information we have,"said party chairman Mansour Abbas.
“Of course I want to stop the war!” exclaimed MK Mansour Abbas.
“If it were up to you—in the opposition, the TV studios, the former officials—you would have given up a long time ago,” the PM said at the Knesset.
“What, are they a Lebanese faction? What’s wrong with you?” Mansour Abbas said.
The Ra’am Party played a central role in the Bennett-Lapid government.
The Tel Aviv District Court ruled that Israel’s Bank Leumi had presented sufficient evidence substantiating alleged terror financing by the Igatha 48 Association.
A charity associated with the majority Arab party has been accused of being a Hamas front.
“I say to them in a clear manner...It’s on you to take an immediate decision to recognize a Palestinian state,” said Mansour Abbas in an Arabic-language interview.
In 2021 alone, the Ra’am Party’s Igatha 48 Association transferred close to 400,000 shekel ($110,000) to Khir Ummah in Turkey.
The move comes after an Arab party MK denied that Hamas killed infants on Oct. 7.
There’s “no justification” for the special grants, said the Israeli finance minister, as they already receive the same amount as other authorities.
The Islamist Ra’am Party head warned that there will be an “escalation” should the incoming right-religious coalition change the status quo on the Mount.
