Politics and Knesset
The “Palestinians first” mindset has been proven wrong, and the Arab world understands that the Jewish state “is here to stay,” says the New Right Knesset member.
A group of 43 Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives has called for related language in a must-pass appropriations bill.
Given the interviews that the defense minister and opposition leader gave over the weekend, it appears that a path to a renewed partnership between the two former allies is particularly unlikely.
Between Ra’am Party head MK Mansour Abbas’s stunning support for Netanyahu, the Joint Arab List’s disappointment in Blue and White and Israel’s looming elections, the faction seems shakier than ever.
Party head Mansour Abbas: “The reason we established the Joint List was to worry about the Arab sector and not to please the Zionist left.”
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of undermining the power-sharing agreement that both Likud, and Blue and White, had formed earlier this year.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz vows to support a motion to dissolve the government • Netanyahu calls for unity, says Israel “does not need elections now.”
“On social issues and matters of religion and state, I am on the right,” says Deputy Knesset Speaker and Ra’am Party leader Mansour Abbas.
The network is on the frontlines of a multidimensional battlefield to fight delegitimization, misinformation, boycotts, legal challenges, propaganda and classic anti-Semitism.
Instead, he will become an Independent MP, which has elicited mixed reactions from organizations in the British Jewish community.
“There is no place in Israeli society for such comparisons that desecrate the memory of the Holocaust,” says Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
“100,000 Palestinians can surround and cut off” a settlement, says former lawmaker Jamal Zahalka • Yamina MK Bezalel Smotrich calls for a criminal investigation.
