Ra’am

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Israel’s Ra’am Party splits from Joint Arab List
Israel HayomFebruary 3, 2021
Ahead of the March 23 elections, the Joint List will comprise the Balad, Ta’al and Hadash parties with polls predicting that Ra’am won’t make it into the Knesset if it runs independently.
Mansour Abbas of the Ra'am-Balad Party holds a press conference after a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
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Israel’s Arab parties launch election campaigns; vow not to ‘sell out’ to Netanyahu
Daniel Siryoti Israel HayomJanuary 21, 2021
Balad, Ra’am, Ta’al and Hadash launch independent campaigns, but Joint Arab List insiders say that doesn’t necessarily indicate the alliance is crumbling.
Joint Arab List head Ayman Odeh speaks to the media at party headquarters on election night in the Arab city of Shfar'am, March 2, 2020. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
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Eyal ZisserDecember 8, 2020
Let’s not celebrate the romance with Ra’am prematurely
The right is reveling in this new friendship, though it is ignoring the ramifications of joining forces with an Islamic movement currently displaying signs of moderation.
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Joint Arab List fumes as Ra’am Party head skips vote to dissolve Knesset
Daniel SiryotiIsrael HayomDecember 3, 2020
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.”
Mansour Abbas of the Ra'am-Balad Party holds a press conference after a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
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Haim ShineNovember 26, 2020
Israel’s Arabs are finally waking up
Arab states have recently declared that the Palestinian narrative is a sham; the time has come for Israel’s Arabs to admit the same.
Dr. Haim Shine
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Israel’s Joint List outraged after member says ‘Arab parties not in left’s pocket’
Daniel SiryotiIsrael HayomNovember 25, 2020
“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.
Deputy Knesset Speaker and Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas. April 16, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
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