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Netanyahu’s Ultimatum to Gantz: Sovereignty Now or New Elections
Bibi has to be an idiot not to try to kill this government, and Mother Netanyahu did not raise idiots.
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Annexation would be of enormous benefit to everyone involved. Certainly to Israel and the few Palestinians living in the area annexed would benefit enormously from becoming residents in Israel while also being able to keep their PA citizenship if they want it, and none of the other Palestinians would suffer any losses because of it. Hopefully Bibi will be able to secure a majority in the government and the Knesset to begin the process next month, and if Gantz quits because of this, polls indicate that if new elections would held now, Bibi would be leading a right wing government.Netanyahu’s Ultimatum to Gantz: Sovereignty Now or New Elections
Bibi has to be an idiot not to try to kill this government, and Mother Netanyahu did not raise idiots.
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After they finally arrest that racist criminal son-of-a-***** MarcATL.
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Yemina sets headquaters in the Arab sector | "Let them build in the settlements how much they like, we beleive Shaked will help us, we'll bring 2 seats"
Citizens from the Arab sector who no longer see their place in the Joint Arab List party, began cooperating with Yemina in favor of maintaining their interests: "We must also bring to this party at least two seats from the Arab sector. What is missing from the Joint Arab List - will move to the right".
When the chairman of the Yemina right wing party, Naftali Bennett, announced three months ago that he would open the party to "very, very large publics" during a toast of the faction, no one thought it would include the Arab sector as well. I get up in the morning and think of the entire Israeli public, as committed to the citizens of Kfar Qassem as I am to all the citizens of the country. "
Last week, this commitment to Arab citizens materialized. During a tour last Tuesday of MK Ayelet Shaked with social activists Idit Silman and Shirley Pinto in Kfar Bara and Kfar Qassem, the party headquarters was launched for the Arab sector. The move takes place as part of the construction of the field headquarters: women, Judea and Samaria, among others. For minorities, as well as encouraging activists and recruiting volunteers, as later conferences are planned in the councils of Nazareth, Taibeh and Sakhnin.
"We are getting a lot of seats now not because of our right and left," Silman claims. "No one comes specifically because of the issue of sovereignty," she says. On the fear of turning right to center-left voters, she clarifies: "I do not hide it, they know I am an ideological right that certain things are important to me, and if I tell them these things and it passes them by - then what will I say?", she wonders. She also refers to the support of the Arab public: "Apparently Israeli Arabs know like me that the best place in the world to raise children and live is here. So now they are asking for a quality of life."
Behind the scenes, social activists and heads of Arab councils turned to Shaked, claiming that they no longer find their place in the Joint Arab List. According to them, the MKs who claim to be their envoy do not address issues that are important to them: education, war on crime and violence, and they are willing to support parties that will take care of these things. We know that Ayelet promises and fulfills, so we said that this time we want to try, "Sufian Assi, a senior official in Kfar Bara who coordinates the field's activities for the Arab public, tells us.
This is not the first time the village has collaborated with a Zionist-religious party. "In the 1980s, we worked with the Mafd"al party and we would voted for them at the ballot box. "My uncle was the previous head of the council, Musa 'Assi, he was connected to the Mafd"al and we would always vote for them. I think now the right wing will have more than they expect in the Arab sector."
"We are interested in us, what is happening there in Palestine is not interesting to us, let them build in the settlements, let them do what they like, we are interested here, we are the center. I am not interested in what is happening in the territories. We believe it will help the Arab sector."
Support for the Joint Arab List or at least for MK Mansour Abbas, who has recently presented a different line from his faction, according to which the Arab sector should be taken care of in exchange for the pleasures of power should be natural, but Assi learned from the experience sharply attacks his representatives: All this joint Arab list will get half of what it got before, do not believe in them, they do us nothing but harm. What do I care about Palestine? I am not interested in Palestine, they have Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas). What will I ask from them? They are just for the media and that is it, they are interested in the chair, no more. "
Citizens from the Arab sector who no longer see their place in the Joint Arab List party, began cooperating with Yemina in favor of maintaining their interests: "We must also bring to this party at least two seats from the Arab sector. What is missing from the Joint Arab List - will move to the right".
When the chairman of the Yemina right wing party, Naftali Bennett, announced three months ago that he would open the party to "very, very large publics" during a toast of the faction, no one thought it would include the Arab sector as well. I get up in the morning and think of the entire Israeli public, as committed to the citizens of Kfar Qassem as I am to all the citizens of the country. "
Last week, this commitment to Arab citizens materialized. During a tour last Tuesday of MK Ayelet Shaked with social activists Idit Silman and Shirley Pinto in Kfar Bara and Kfar Qassem, the party headquarters was launched for the Arab sector. The move takes place as part of the construction of the field headquarters: women, Judea and Samaria, among others. For minorities, as well as encouraging activists and recruiting volunteers, as later conferences are planned in the councils of Nazareth, Taibeh and Sakhnin.
"We are getting a lot of seats now not because of our right and left," Silman claims. "No one comes specifically because of the issue of sovereignty," she says. On the fear of turning right to center-left voters, she clarifies: "I do not hide it, they know I am an ideological right that certain things are important to me, and if I tell them these things and it passes them by - then what will I say?", she wonders. She also refers to the support of the Arab public: "Apparently Israeli Arabs know like me that the best place in the world to raise children and live is here. So now they are asking for a quality of life."
Behind the scenes, social activists and heads of Arab councils turned to Shaked, claiming that they no longer find their place in the Joint Arab List. According to them, the MKs who claim to be their envoy do not address issues that are important to them: education, war on crime and violence, and they are willing to support parties that will take care of these things. We know that Ayelet promises and fulfills, so we said that this time we want to try, "Sufian Assi, a senior official in Kfar Bara who coordinates the field's activities for the Arab public, tells us.
This is not the first time the village has collaborated with a Zionist-religious party. "In the 1980s, we worked with the Mafd"al party and we would voted for them at the ballot box. "My uncle was the previous head of the council, Musa 'Assi, he was connected to the Mafd"al and we would always vote for them. I think now the right wing will have more than they expect in the Arab sector."
"We are interested in us, what is happening there in Palestine is not interesting to us, let them build in the settlements, let them do what they like, we are interested here, we are the center. I am not interested in what is happening in the territories. We believe it will help the Arab sector."
Support for the Joint Arab List or at least for MK Mansour Abbas, who has recently presented a different line from his faction, according to which the Arab sector should be taken care of in exchange for the pleasures of power should be natural, but Assi learned from the experience sharply attacks his representatives: All this joint Arab list will get half of what it got before, do not believe in them, they do us nothing but harm. What do I care about Palestine? I am not interested in Palestine, they have Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas). What will I ask from them? They are just for the media and that is it, they are interested in the chair, no more. "
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New alliances, parties, & politicians join the fray ahead of Israeli elections 2021- Gil Hoffman
The campaign trail is off to a very eventful start, with several new alliances and declarations publicized over the past couple of weeks.
Gil Hoffman | Chief Political Correspondent, Jerusalem Post
The campaign trail is off to a very eventful start, with several new alliances and declarations publicized over the past couple of weeks.
Gil Hoffman | Chief Political Correspondent, Jerusalem Post
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Importing the Swamp: Gideon Saar Hires ‘Lincoln Project’ Team to Do to Bibi What They Did to Trump
No doubt, it's by far more effective stuff than Israelis are used to both in terms of the sophistication of the video production and the raw bluntness of the message.
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Samy Abu Shahadeh wins election for Balad leadership
Balad has declared its opposition to Israel as a Jewish state and pushed to turn the country into a “state of all its citizens”.
MK Samy Abu Shahadeh on Saturday won the primaries for the leadership of the Balad party and defeated his predecessor, MK Mtanes Shihadeh, who will not be in the next Knesset.
Balad is one of the four parties that makes up the predominantly Arab Joint List faction.
In the past, journalist Yishai Friedman reported that Abu Shahadeh was a guest at a Middle East Monitor conference where he claimed that Israel was a "racist entity" created by Zionism, which he described as "an ugly and racist project." He further claimed that Jews themselves were also racists.
Abu Shahadeh also participated in the release of a terrorist who was in prison for conspiring with Hamas to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel.
Last year, he recorded a video in which he expressed his "appreciation" for the "heroic efforts" of the mothers of Palestinian Arab terrorists.
Balad has declared its opposition to Israel as a Jewish state and pushed to turn the country into a “state of all its citizens”. The party has been barred in previous elections from running by the election committee, only to have the decisions overturned by the Supreme Court.
MKs who have served on its behalf in the past include Jamal Zahalka, Hanin Zoabi, Basel Ghattas and Azmi Bishara, who was suspected of spying for Hezbollah during the Second Lebanon war and fled Israel to evade arrest.
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Well, he of course has everything polished on how to blame all his real, perceived and self-caused problems on Israel and the Jews.
But here's also the point, that's all they ever do at their job - optics for al-Jazeerah, literally the more thrown out for disrupting govt. meeting the more headlines, and of course for such spectacles where people who demand a Jew-free territory as a precondition to a state,
and to *maybe think* about negotiation, accuse Israel of racism.
A Zionist can cringe at the idea of someone like that in the Israeli govt,
but at some point they don't see how they prove the opposite, even if those on the Left readily buy or use them as excuse, others see the level of political liberalism and compare to their own in the region, and notice, especially the social media.
To finish -
a. when the commonly criticized Leiberman proposed to move his village under their own,
PA/Hamas or even himself to run it or be run by, in that state without Jews that they can allegedly make "state of all its citizens" if they want, or any else. The entire Joint Arab List screamed and foamed from the top of their lungs how (they didn't say it like that) but fear a worse scenario than PA/Hamas or even their own local self-govt.
b. Not all Arabs are as unified in their voting as identity politics and media would like people to think, especially Israeli domestic politics as portrayed in the west. This is the old generation,
and the young, as much as the older too on the Arab street, already know they, Joint List politicians have been for decades doing nothing but, headlines and optics for anti-Israel propaganda, and nothing productive beyond for their own. That's why they no more represent the real views concerns, people vote for them in whole villages, tribes, and councils, some even get shot - but it's eventually what the kadi or the sheikh says, by default, and thus results.
From what I hear in conversations - the next Arab party is going to change the entire paradigm, and give those who want real integration, serve the state, IDF, Nat. service etc a more mainstream voice, encourage plurality of voices in the sector,
and Israeli society as a whole.
Its almost as if the only thing these people are good at,
is going around entertaining anti-Israel audience abroad, but after what 20-30 years of the Joint Arab List, I guess common people, no matter how ideological, expect real work and results - otherwise they wouldn't be moving their votes to the Orthodox and Likud camps.
Balad has declared its opposition to Israel as a Jewish state and pushed to turn the country into a “state of all its citizens”.
MK Samy Abu Shahadeh on Saturday won the primaries for the leadership of the Balad party and defeated his predecessor, MK Mtanes Shihadeh, who will not be in the next Knesset.
Balad is one of the four parties that makes up the predominantly Arab Joint List faction.
In the past, journalist Yishai Friedman reported that Abu Shahadeh was a guest at a Middle East Monitor conference where he claimed that Israel was a "racist entity" created by Zionism, which he described as "an ugly and racist project." He further claimed that Jews themselves were also racists.
Abu Shahadeh also participated in the release of a terrorist who was in prison for conspiring with Hamas to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel.
Last year, he recorded a video in which he expressed his "appreciation" for the "heroic efforts" of the mothers of Palestinian Arab terrorists.
Balad has declared its opposition to Israel as a Jewish state and pushed to turn the country into a “state of all its citizens”. The party has been barred in previous elections from running by the election committee, only to have the decisions overturned by the Supreme Court.
MKs who have served on its behalf in the past include Jamal Zahalka, Hanin Zoabi, Basel Ghattas and Azmi Bishara, who was suspected of spying for Hezbollah during the Second Lebanon war and fled Israel to evade arrest.
Samy Abu Shahadeh wins election for Balad leadership
Balad has declared its opposition to Israel as a Jewish state and pushed to turn the country into a “state of all its citizens”.
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Well, he of course has everything polished on how to blame all his real, perceived and self-caused problems on Israel and the Jews.
But here's also the point, that's all they ever do at their job - optics for al-Jazeerah, literally the more thrown out for disrupting govt. meeting the more headlines, and of course for such spectacles where people who demand a Jew-free territory as a precondition to a state,
and to *maybe think* about negotiation, accuse Israel of racism.
A Zionist can cringe at the idea of someone like that in the Israeli govt,
but at some point they don't see how they prove the opposite, even if those on the Left readily buy or use them as excuse, others see the level of political liberalism and compare to their own in the region, and notice, especially the social media.
To finish -
a. when the commonly criticized Leiberman proposed to move his village under their own,
PA/Hamas or even himself to run it or be run by, in that state without Jews that they can allegedly make "state of all its citizens" if they want, or any else. The entire Joint Arab List screamed and foamed from the top of their lungs how (they didn't say it like that) but fear a worse scenario than PA/Hamas or even their own local self-govt.
b. Not all Arabs are as unified in their voting as identity politics and media would like people to think, especially Israeli domestic politics as portrayed in the west. This is the old generation,
and the young, as much as the older too on the Arab street, already know they, Joint List politicians have been for decades doing nothing but, headlines and optics for anti-Israel propaganda, and nothing productive beyond for their own. That's why they no more represent the real views concerns, people vote for them in whole villages, tribes, and councils, some even get shot - but it's eventually what the kadi or the sheikh says, by default, and thus results.
From what I hear in conversations - the next Arab party is going to change the entire paradigm, and give those who want real integration, serve the state, IDF, Nat. service etc a more mainstream voice, encourage plurality of voices in the sector,
and Israeli society as a whole.
Its almost as if the only thing these people are good at,
is going around entertaining anti-Israel audience abroad, but after what 20-30 years of the Joint Arab List, I guess common people, no matter how ideological, expect real work and results - otherwise they wouldn't be moving their votes to the Orthodox and Likud camps.
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In First, Woman Elected to Head Israeli Religious Party
For the first time in Israel’s history, a woman was elected this week to head a religious party running for the Knesset, when Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe emerged victorious in the Jewish Home Party (Habayit Hayehudi, formerly the Mafdal party) primary on Tuesday.
Hagit Moshe defeated Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett’s confidant, Nir Orbach, in a race held in the 960-member assembly.
Moshe’s election increases the chances of the Jewish Home partnering with Likud after the March 23 elections, giving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a better chance of forming a coalition.
[Editor: The Jewish Home Party is likely to form a technical bloc with Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious-Zionist party.]
This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.
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For the first time in Israel’s history, a woman was elected this week to head a religious party running for the Knesset, when Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe emerged victorious in the Jewish Home Party (Habayit Hayehudi, formerly the Mafdal party) primary on Tuesday.
Hagit Moshe defeated Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett’s confidant, Nir Orbach, in a race held in the 960-member assembly.
Moshe’s election increases the chances of the Jewish Home partnering with Likud after the March 23 elections, giving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a better chance of forming a coalition.
[Editor: The Jewish Home Party is likely to form a technical bloc with Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious-Zionist party.]
This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.
In First, Woman Elected to Head Israeli Religious Party
Hagit Moshe defeated Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett’s confidant, Nir Orbach.
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Gideon Sa'ar working with advisors who tried to make Republicans vote for Biden
In attempts to unseat Netanyahu, Gideon Sa'ar has hired four anti-Trump Republicans for his campaign. Amit Segal explains why that matters.
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In attempts to unseat Netanyahu, Gideon Sa'ar has hired four anti-Trump Republicans for his campaign. Amit Segal explains why that matters.
Gideon Sa'ar working with advisors who tried to make Republicans vote for Biden
In attempts to unseat Netanyahu, Gideon Sa'ar has hired four anti-Trump Republicans for his campaign. Amit Segal explains why that matters.
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PM rival Saar recruits anti-Trump Republicans for campaign
Former Likud minister who founded breakaway party has reportedly hired the services of the founders of the Lincoln Project, which worked to put Biden in the White House, to advise him in March 2021 elections
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Netanyahu hopes for Moroccan royal visit in Israel before March elections
For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a visit to Israel by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI could generate great support amid Israeli voters of Moroccan origin in the upcoming March 23 elections.
Reports yesterday reveal that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to arrange a visit to Israel by Moroccan King Mohammed VI. Netanyahu would like the king to arrive in Israel in the coming weeks, once the nationwide coronavirus lockdown is lifted. Reportedly, officials from the prime minister’s office and officials from Israel’s National Security Council (NSC) have been in contact recently with officials at the Dar al-Makhzen Palace to advance such a visit.
Israel’s prime minister hopes for the visit to take place before the March 23 elections. Such a visit is expected to appeal to the tens of thousands of Israeli voters of Moroccan origin. Still, chances of the visit taking place before the elections appear slim, as the king is reluctant to assist Netanyahu in his electoral efforts. An unnamed source from Jerusalem was quoted by Yedioth Ahronot newspaper as saying "there are talks and attempts, but I find it hard to see this happening. We know that Balfour (the prime minister's official residence) and the NSC want this to happen, but it is uncertain they will manage to pull it off before the election — although the king might change his mind and make a surprise visit."
Another obstacle to such a visit is the condition reportedly set by the king, which is to combine a visit to Israel with a visit to the West Bank city of Ramallah for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Former US President Donald Trump had announced on Dec. 10 that Israel and Morocco agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations. Trump had also said that the United States had agreed to recognize Morocco’s claim over the disputed Western Sahara region. A joint Israeli-American delegation arrived in Rabat on Dec. 22 for a signature ceremony of several bilateral accords, cementing relations between the two countries.
In its contacts with the Trump administration, Morocco originally committed to opening liaison offices rather than embassies. Still, on a Dec. 26 phone conversation with Netanyahu, the Moroccan king said he was committed to opening embassies as part of the next phase of the process, pointing out that such a move would be the "natural next step." During the conversation, the Israeli premier invited the king for a visit. A statement issued by Netanyahu’s office said, “The leaders congratulated each other over the renewal of ties between the countries, the signing of the joint statement with the United States and the agreements between the two countries.”
Since then, a Moroccan delegation visited Israel to inspect the situation of the building that served some 20 years ago as the country’s liaison office. Israel did the same. David Govrin, who previously served as Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, opened Israel’s liaison office in Rabat. Govrin will run the Israeli mission in Rabat until an ambassador is appointed formally.
According to reports in recent days, Netanyahu is planning to visit the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain as soon as possible once the current coronavirus lockdown ends. Some reports mentioned Feb. 9 or Feb. 11 as possible dates for the visits.
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For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a visit to Israel by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI could generate great support amid Israeli voters of Moroccan origin in the upcoming March 23 elections.
Reports yesterday reveal that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to arrange a visit to Israel by Moroccan King Mohammed VI. Netanyahu would like the king to arrive in Israel in the coming weeks, once the nationwide coronavirus lockdown is lifted. Reportedly, officials from the prime minister’s office and officials from Israel’s National Security Council (NSC) have been in contact recently with officials at the Dar al-Makhzen Palace to advance such a visit.
Israel’s prime minister hopes for the visit to take place before the March 23 elections. Such a visit is expected to appeal to the tens of thousands of Israeli voters of Moroccan origin. Still, chances of the visit taking place before the elections appear slim, as the king is reluctant to assist Netanyahu in his electoral efforts. An unnamed source from Jerusalem was quoted by Yedioth Ahronot newspaper as saying "there are talks and attempts, but I find it hard to see this happening. We know that Balfour (the prime minister's official residence) and the NSC want this to happen, but it is uncertain they will manage to pull it off before the election — although the king might change his mind and make a surprise visit."
Another obstacle to such a visit is the condition reportedly set by the king, which is to combine a visit to Israel with a visit to the West Bank city of Ramallah for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Former US President Donald Trump had announced on Dec. 10 that Israel and Morocco agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations. Trump had also said that the United States had agreed to recognize Morocco’s claim over the disputed Western Sahara region. A joint Israeli-American delegation arrived in Rabat on Dec. 22 for a signature ceremony of several bilateral accords, cementing relations between the two countries.
In its contacts with the Trump administration, Morocco originally committed to opening liaison offices rather than embassies. Still, on a Dec. 26 phone conversation with Netanyahu, the Moroccan king said he was committed to opening embassies as part of the next phase of the process, pointing out that such a move would be the "natural next step." During the conversation, the Israeli premier invited the king for a visit. A statement issued by Netanyahu’s office said, “The leaders congratulated each other over the renewal of ties between the countries, the signing of the joint statement with the United States and the agreements between the two countries.”
Since then, a Moroccan delegation visited Israel to inspect the situation of the building that served some 20 years ago as the country’s liaison office. Israel did the same. David Govrin, who previously served as Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, opened Israel’s liaison office in Rabat. Govrin will run the Israeli mission in Rabat until an ambassador is appointed formally.
According to reports in recent days, Netanyahu is planning to visit the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain as soon as possible once the current coronavirus lockdown ends. Some reports mentioned Feb. 9 or Feb. 11 as possible dates for the visits.
Netanyahu hopes for Moroccan royal visit in Israel before March elections
For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a visit to Israel by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI could generate great support amid Israeli voters of Moroccan origin in the upcoming March 23 elections.
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New Labor chief Merav Michaeli : "The Labor party is leaving the government - I've announced to Peretz and Shmuli that they're to resign"
Update:
"'Amir Peretz decides to resign from the Knesset and end his membership in the Labor Party, but will continue serving as minister in the government on behalf of the Blue and White Party."
Further read:
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*A comment I've read on an Israeli forum:
"In truth, that's a bitter and pretty sad end for the party that established the country"
Update:
"'Amir Peretz decides to resign from the Knesset and end his membership in the Labor Party, but will continue serving as minister in the government on behalf of the Blue and White Party."
Further read:
In interview, Israeli’s new Labor Party chief Merav Michaeli says she draws inspiration from Biden/Harris
Merav Michaeli, the Knesset member elected on Sunday to lead Israel’s beleaguered Labor Party, cleared her schedule last Wednesday to watch Kamala Harris be sworn in as the first female vice president in American history. For Michaeli, a former journalist and staunch feminist, this glass-ceiling...
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*A comment I've read on an Israeli forum:
"In truth, that's a bitter and pretty sad end for the party that established the country"
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The Joint Arab list falls apart: Mansour Abbas will announce the formation of a new party
The chairman of RAAM is expected to announce that he will leave the party that united the four factions that represent the Arab sector. One of the conditions for him to remain on the list: a public statement on who will be recommend to the formation of the coalition • First publication
The chairman of Ra'am Mansour Abbas is expected to announce that he is leaving the Joint Arab List and will form a new party - this was first reported today (Tuesday) in News 13. This, after internal polls show that an independent party led by him will receive six seats, while the joint list will remain with five. Abbas also conditioned his stay on the party on the Hadash party's waiver of support for the LGBT community.
RA'AM clarified that they would remain on the list and would agree not to recommend Benjamin Netanyahu to form the coalition in exchange for the other parties agreeing to two conditions: the first that the list would respect the law and not support any proposal against it, and the other that the list will not face a Pandora's box, but will know exactly what they will receive from us." the statement said.
Meanwhile, earlier today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting with the heads of localities in the Bedouin sector, with the aim of attacking their voices as well, in addition to the voices of the Arab sector. The person who initiated the meeting is the mayor of Dimona, Benny Bitton.
This move by Netanyahu follows on from his efforts to gain the support of the Arab sector - an attempt that is controversially accepted. About ten days ago, a meeting of the prime minister was scheduled with the heads of local authorities in a number of Arab localities, and some of them called for a boycott of the meeting - claiming that it was a "political exploitation of the government's incompetence in the fight against violence."
The meeting, which was initiated by the chairman of the local government center, Haim Bibbs, in coordination with the chairman of the committee of the heads of the Arab authorities, Modar Yunis, decided to boycott, among others, the mayor of Kfar Kanna council, Yosef Awada, the mayor of Sakhnin, Kaukab Abu al-Hija Zahar Salah, and the mayor of Tira Mamun 'Abd Elhai.
Recently, Netanyahu also visited Nazareth as part of the election campaign. Dozens of people demonstrated against his visit and 19 protesters were arrested. Police said they did not obey police orders, prevented them from setting up security checkpoints for the visit and also tried to enter the area that was closed around the town hall.
Those who also took part in the protest organized in the area are MKs from the Joint Arab List, including Matans Shehadeh and Sundos Saleh, who were even documented being removed from the scene by the police. Later, Saleh was transferred to the hospital for medical treatment.
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The chairman of RAAM is expected to announce that he will leave the party that united the four factions that represent the Arab sector. One of the conditions for him to remain on the list: a public statement on who will be recommend to the formation of the coalition • First publication
The chairman of Ra'am Mansour Abbas is expected to announce that he is leaving the Joint Arab List and will form a new party - this was first reported today (Tuesday) in News 13. This, after internal polls show that an independent party led by him will receive six seats, while the joint list will remain with five. Abbas also conditioned his stay on the party on the Hadash party's waiver of support for the LGBT community.
RA'AM clarified that they would remain on the list and would agree not to recommend Benjamin Netanyahu to form the coalition in exchange for the other parties agreeing to two conditions: the first that the list would respect the law and not support any proposal against it, and the other that the list will not face a Pandora's box, but will know exactly what they will receive from us." the statement said.
Meanwhile, earlier today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting with the heads of localities in the Bedouin sector, with the aim of attacking their voices as well, in addition to the voices of the Arab sector. The person who initiated the meeting is the mayor of Dimona, Benny Bitton.
This move by Netanyahu follows on from his efforts to gain the support of the Arab sector - an attempt that is controversially accepted. About ten days ago, a meeting of the prime minister was scheduled with the heads of local authorities in a number of Arab localities, and some of them called for a boycott of the meeting - claiming that it was a "political exploitation of the government's incompetence in the fight against violence."
The meeting, which was initiated by the chairman of the local government center, Haim Bibbs, in coordination with the chairman of the committee of the heads of the Arab authorities, Modar Yunis, decided to boycott, among others, the mayor of Kfar Kanna council, Yosef Awada, the mayor of Sakhnin, Kaukab Abu al-Hija Zahar Salah, and the mayor of Tira Mamun 'Abd Elhai.
Recently, Netanyahu also visited Nazareth as part of the election campaign. Dozens of people demonstrated against his visit and 19 protesters were arrested. Police said they did not obey police orders, prevented them from setting up security checkpoints for the visit and also tried to enter the area that was closed around the town hall.
Those who also took part in the protest organized in the area are MKs from the Joint Arab List, including Matans Shehadeh and Sundos Saleh, who were even documented being removed from the scene by the police. Later, Saleh was transferred to the hospital for medical treatment.
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Arab-Majority Joint List Officially Splits Ahead of Elections
The Knesset Committee unanimously approved on Thursday the requests of the various factions comprising the Joint Arab List party to split away, ending weeks of negotiations within the Arab-majority party that ended in an impasse.
Member of Knesset (MK) Mansour Abbas requested that his faction, the United Arab List (Ra’am), split away from the Joint List. Ra’am is the political wing of the Southern Branch of the Islamic movement.
MK Ahmad Tibi requested that his Ta’al faction be separated from the Joint List.
The Joint List faction now includes the Hadash and Balad factions with MKs Ayman Odeh, Mranes Shehadeh, Aida Toma Suleiman, Ofer Kasif, Hiba Yazbek, Yousef Jabarin, Jaber Askala and Sami Abu Shehadeh.
MKs Osama Saadi and Walid Taha, who presented the division request at the committee discussion, claimed that the request was only technical for “a more efficient organization in the elections” and that the requests did not indicate a “substantial split” in the Joint Faction.
However, the official request came after weeks of squabbling between the various factions and disagreements on crucial issues.
The Islamist Ra’am demanded that the Joint List refrain from supporting anti-religious motions such as gay rights, but the other factions refused.
Another issue under dispute was the cooperation with the government and working with the Zionist political parties.
The parties still have a week to regroup or reconfigure their lists before the final official date for submitting the list for the upcoming March 23 elections, Israel’s fourth round in less than two years.
The elections come as the left-center bloc is divided, the Arab-majority Joint List is on the verge of final dissolution, and four parties that will combat each other are running on the right, ensuring an acrimonious period in an already toxic environment in Israel.
Polls show that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is in the lead with about 30 seats while Blue and White, his former chief coalition partner, has lost most of its power and is on the verge of not passing the voting threshold.
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The Knesset Committee unanimously approved on Thursday the requests of the various factions comprising the Joint Arab List party to split away, ending weeks of negotiations within the Arab-majority party that ended in an impasse.
Member of Knesset (MK) Mansour Abbas requested that his faction, the United Arab List (Ra’am), split away from the Joint List. Ra’am is the political wing of the Southern Branch of the Islamic movement.
MK Ahmad Tibi requested that his Ta’al faction be separated from the Joint List.
The Joint List faction now includes the Hadash and Balad factions with MKs Ayman Odeh, Mranes Shehadeh, Aida Toma Suleiman, Ofer Kasif, Hiba Yazbek, Yousef Jabarin, Jaber Askala and Sami Abu Shehadeh.
MKs Osama Saadi and Walid Taha, who presented the division request at the committee discussion, claimed that the request was only technical for “a more efficient organization in the elections” and that the requests did not indicate a “substantial split” in the Joint Faction.
However, the official request came after weeks of squabbling between the various factions and disagreements on crucial issues.
The Islamist Ra’am demanded that the Joint List refrain from supporting anti-religious motions such as gay rights, but the other factions refused.
Another issue under dispute was the cooperation with the government and working with the Zionist political parties.
The parties still have a week to regroup or reconfigure their lists before the final official date for submitting the list for the upcoming March 23 elections, Israel’s fourth round in less than two years.
The elections come as the left-center bloc is divided, the Arab-majority Joint List is on the verge of final dissolution, and four parties that will combat each other are running on the right, ensuring an acrimonious period in an already toxic environment in Israel.
Polls show that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is in the lead with about 30 seats while Blue and White, his former chief coalition partner, has lost most of its power and is on the verge of not passing the voting threshold.
Arab-Majority Joint List Officially Splits Ahead of Elections
One big issue under dispute was their cooperation with the government and working with the Zionist political parties.
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Arab social activist Mohammad Darawsheh announces new political party
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Social activist Mohammad Darawsheh becomes the latest to form a new political party in Israel ahead of the March 23 election.
In a statement, Darawsheh says the party will be called Ma’an (“together” in Arabic) and will “focus only on the social and economic issues that interest the Arab citizen.”
He says his party will strive to move the Arab community “from victimhood to decision-making positions.”
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Social activist Mohammad Darawsheh becomes the latest to form a new political party in Israel ahead of the March 23 election.
In a statement, Darawsheh says the party will be called Ma’an (“together” in Arabic) and will “focus only on the social and economic issues that interest the Arab citizen.”
He says his party will strive to move the Arab community “from victimhood to decision-making positions.”
New Israeli-Arab party wants to partner with Yesh Atid | The Jerusalem Post
"I can't be on the far Left of the Israeli political scene and expect to be effective."
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Netanyahu's ultimatum to Smotrich
Prime Minister Netanyahu pressuring Religious Zionist Party to merge with Otzma Yehudit, Jewish Home - threatening party if it does not.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is pressuring Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionist Party to prove to the Likud that it can cross the electoral threshold in the upcoming Knesset election – or else merge with other right-wing parties, according to a report Friday by Yediot Aharanot.
In recent days, the report claimed, officials from the Prime Minister’s Office have spoken with Smotrich and other Religious Zionist Party officials repeatedly, laying out an ultimatum for the newly rebranded National Union’s Knesset bid.
With the Central Election Committee’s deadline for submitting Knesset lists set for next Thursday, the Likud has warned Smotrich that his party must pass the threshold in a publicly published poll next week, as well as in an internal Likud poll next week. Should the Religious Zionist Party fail to cross the 3.25% electoral threshold in one of the polls, officials close to the Prime Minister say, the party must agree to run with both the Jewish Home and Otzma Yehudit parties.
If Smotrich refuses, Netanyahu’s confidants have warned that the Likud will work to minimize the vote for the Religious Zionist Party, aggressively campaigning among the party’s demographic base.
Should Smotrich agree to a joint run, however, or succeed in passing the threshold in next week’s polls, the Likud has reportedly vowed not to target the Religious Zionist Party’s electoral base.
Thus far, the Religious Zionist Party has failed to reach a breakthrough with the Jewish Home, and has yet to conduct talks with Otzma Yehudit for a joint run.
A spokesperson for the Religious Zionist Party responded to the report saying: “We won’t take part in the spin game.”
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Prime Minister Netanyahu pressuring Religious Zionist Party to merge with Otzma Yehudit, Jewish Home - threatening party if it does not.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is pressuring Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionist Party to prove to the Likud that it can cross the electoral threshold in the upcoming Knesset election – or else merge with other right-wing parties, according to a report Friday by Yediot Aharanot.
In recent days, the report claimed, officials from the Prime Minister’s Office have spoken with Smotrich and other Religious Zionist Party officials repeatedly, laying out an ultimatum for the newly rebranded National Union’s Knesset bid.
With the Central Election Committee’s deadline for submitting Knesset lists set for next Thursday, the Likud has warned Smotrich that his party must pass the threshold in a publicly published poll next week, as well as in an internal Likud poll next week. Should the Religious Zionist Party fail to cross the 3.25% electoral threshold in one of the polls, officials close to the Prime Minister say, the party must agree to run with both the Jewish Home and Otzma Yehudit parties.
If Smotrich refuses, Netanyahu’s confidants have warned that the Likud will work to minimize the vote for the Religious Zionist Party, aggressively campaigning among the party’s demographic base.
Should Smotrich agree to a joint run, however, or succeed in passing the threshold in next week’s polls, the Likud has reportedly vowed not to target the Religious Zionist Party’s electoral base.
Thus far, the Religious Zionist Party has failed to reach a breakthrough with the Jewish Home, and has yet to conduct talks with Otzma Yehudit for a joint run.
A spokesperson for the Religious Zionist Party responded to the report saying: “We won’t take part in the spin game.”
Netanyahu's ultimatum to Smotrich
Prime Minister Netanyahu pressuring Religious Zionist Party to merge with Otzma Yehudit, Jewish Home - threatening party if it does not.
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Religious Zionist Party and Jewish Home renew unity talks
'Progress made' in negotiations for establishment of joint National Religious Knesset list.
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