The joint list towards splittingRa’am announced today (Wednesday) that at the end of a meeting of the factions that make up the joint list, the faction’s demands in the negotiations were rejected, “without any explanation” for its method.
Yesterday, the party led by Mansour Abbas said after a meeting between the heads of the joint list that it was ready not to recommend or support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This, in exchange for the agreement of the other parties on the list to two conditions that it set.
The first condition What the party has stated is that the other components of the list will agree to publicly declare “who does.” That is, to clarify which of the candidates is acceptable to the members of the list and to whom they will recommend to the Prime Minister. The party added that the list must announce “which of the candidates can be worked with and in what way, and what are the limits allowed for influence.”
This, according to RAAM, serves its ultimate goal that the party chairman has been pushing for some time, and that is “strengthening the political power of the Arab voter and expressing it in his favor and gaining rights. We want the common voters not to face a Pandora’s box, but know exactly what They will receive from us. ”
The second condition Is that the joint list will respect the law and will not support any bill that is contrary to it, which could harm the status of the Sharia courts. The condition also focuses on the issue of the LGBT community and surrogacy. As is well known, parts of the list, such as representatives of the Hadash party, publicly support the granting of equal rights to the LGBT community and the enactment of laws that are inconsistent with the teachings of RAAM members.
As you may recall, Mansour Abbas has made headlines in recent months due to the surprising cooperation between him and Benjamin Netanyahu and other parts of the right-wing camp. He challenged the left camp, both Jewish and Arab, due to his political cooperation with the Jewish right. In an interview with Maariv on the subject, he said: “Israeli society, especially the right, thinks that it is impossible to reach an acceptance of the Arab. There is always a feeling that if the Arabs rule, the Jews will be the victim. They will suffer. They will be thrown into the sea. “In this mechanism of intimidation, and it is true, but in my opinion there is a place where we Arabs also pay attention to it and we will treat fear seriously and not in denial.”
Mansour AbbasThe chairman of Ra’am said: “They also do not want to respect the values of religion and society, and also want to remain on the bench of the political field. We tried to prevent the joint disintegration until the last minute, now the decision is in the hands of the RAAM Council.
MK Sami Abu-ShahadaThe chairman of Balad said tonight: “The joint continues without Mansour Abbas, who chose a side – of Bibi, not that of Arab society. Anyone who goes against the consensus in Arab society will pay a heavy price for his decision. We are confident in our public and we will continue. We walked with our heads held high and our hearts wholehearted. “
MK Heba will be infected She wrote on her Twitter account: “Whoever dismantles the joint list betrays public trust, there is no respect for society. The cynical use of RAAM to set conditions related to religion will not hide the main reason for dissolution: flow with Netanyahu. It is a pity that our friends Mansour choose this path.” .
Meanwhile, the joint party updates tonight that members of the RAAM faction have “taken over” the party’s media group. According to them, all media people on behalf of the other factions that run the group have been removed and it has been blocked from messages.