T. Belman. Netanyahu has opened up the floodgates.
MK Mansour Abbas says that if decisions are made that run counter to Islam, his party will resign from the government.
By Dalit Halevi, INN , Jun 14 , 2021 5:00 AM
Mansour Abbas
MK Dr. Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra’am party, on Sunday stressed the centrality of his party within the coalition of the Bennett-Lapid government.
In an interview with the Panet.co.il website and the Hala TV channel, Abbas said that “MK Saeed Alkharumi was absent from the vote on the approval of the government in coordination with us”, stressing that the party is united under his leadership.
He added that in the first meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that will take place this week, he intends to raise the issue of home demolitions in the Negev in order to change the policy from demolition to planning and construction.
Abbas added, “This government was established based on our will, and we will influence it at every moment. Today we have proven that the Arab community is a strong player in the political arena in Israel.”
He clarified, “This government is dependent on us and on our decision, and if there is a decision that contradicts our national principles and our religion we will not be there.”
Asked if he intended to overthrow the government, Abbas said, “We will act responsibly and not childishly.”
In Arabic, Mansour Abbas Vows to ‘Return Lands Appropriated from Our People’
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Abbas chose to deliver the lion’s share of his remarks in Arabic, leaving only 60 seconds in which to speak in Hebrew.
Abbas rejected claims by various Knesset members that the new coalition was about to “sell out” the Negev by formally recognizing Bedouin villages that are not yet legalized. “No one sold out the Negev,” he said. “It remains a part of the State of Israel and its inhabitants are Israeli citizens. Our vision is to live in peace, equality and cooperation… We belong to different religions and communities but there is something that connects all Israelis; it is our citizenship.”
That reassurance, however, was quickly neutralized when Israeli journalists who understand Arabic began to translate Abbas’s remarks to his fellow Arabs.
Abbas promised — in Arabic only — that his Ra’am party will work to “return the lands which were appropriated from our people, a national act of the highest order,” in western Israel — territory which is undisputed, Ynet reported.
So it’s not quite clear just which constituents Abbas is planning to serve.
What is clear, however, are the gains he earned for his constituents:
- legalization and formal recognition of three Bedouin communities in southern Israel
- an extension until the end of 2024 on the freeze on the Kaminetz Law, which underlines enforcement against illegal construction, and
- doubling the budget for the five-year development and improvement plan for the Arab sector.
Abbas also underlined that Ra’am should be the party to handle violence among Israel’s Arab citizens. “Violence and organized crime pose grave danger to our lives,” he said. “The highest value we believe in is the value of human life. How can we claim to be patriots even as we fail to protect our nation’s children?”
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Abbas’s words suggest to me, with little surprise, a great challenge for this gov’t to achieve more than the stated political boons that resulted in its formation. Bennett has stated Redlines about the Jewish nature of the state. These Redlines are the target of Abbas’ words. The principles of Islam that Abbas speaks is not from the mindset of a ‘moderate’ who might be willing to pursue accommodations towards a coexistence of the two people within the state.
This is Muslim Brotherhood speaking. Let us recall that when the Brotherhood speak of Islam, their meaning is clear. They made this clear in 1929. They have made it clear in their every scheme since as these actions have resulted in one of two outcomes in each instance. Either their plots were successful and Jews died, or they were unsuccessful in their attempts at such murders.
We do not need a crystal ball to deduce the meaning behind Abbas’ words. Nor do we need a lengthy text that could be the only manner to fully describe the vile magnitude of slaughter his movement has pursued in the past hundred years when their victims were only Jews or an occasional Arab who looked too closely at coexistence with their Jewish neighbors.
Such a text would be useful to lay at the feet of both the great men of state and the divisive electorate who placed them there – for a constant recollection of the Brotherhoods unrelenting war of murder upon our people is never unrewarding. But to discern Abbas’ words a recent paper could be used where it will describe in general terms his movements goals and aims as were the basis for the recent attack of Riots and Rockets.
But news carries so many half-truths and whole lies that I would suggest a view of the Brotherhood’s charter be preferred as it is readily available. They mean for our many deaths and the ruin of the State. It took not a hundred years for this barbarous brood to use the divisive nature of our people to clamber to the halls of power within the Jewish State. This takes us back to Bennett’s Redlines which he has defined with a significant statement which should not be seen as ambiguous.
Bennett’s claims of Redlines have always bothered me affording me little comfort regardless of his sincerity on these measures. Bennett has won his leadership challenge and I wish him every success of bringing the nation to ten steps to the Right of Bibi. But the word Redline should be cemented by his actions of a Red Wall against any accommodation to the Brotherhood in these matters. I trust this is his goal, but success in achieving this goal is a fundamental challenge to the composition of his gov’t as Abbas’ words make plain and his movement’s standards make obvious.
The word “Jew” is unfortunate, as it indicates belonging to “Judea”.
The word Israelite, which is also a correct English word, is much better.
Israelites are members of the Israeli nation, and some of them reside in the Israelite nation state of Israel.
Then it is parallel to England and English, Germany and German, Russia and Russian, etc.
We Jews (Israelites) should tighten up the language, and then only then can we win the propaganda war.
Right now, this very polluted word “Jew” is doing os a lot of harm.
First of all it associates with a “religion” and religions don’t need nations states.
Secondly it is a derogatory word, a put down in virtually all languages. It associates with being cheap, stingy, also dishonest.
We can’t change that, but we can walk away from this word.
Just like Blacks walked away from the word “Nigger”. (Which originally was without any negative value, simply meaning “Black”.)
The common perception of Jews as “religion” is harming us in the war of narratives.
Also, perception of the Bible as some “divine” document, harms us.
If the Bible was perceived as a historical document, it would help us.
There is a linguistic ambiguity here.
Until the 3rd quarter of the 20th Century “nation” referred to a person’s birth family, not citizenship or place of birth. (With the exception of the United States).
Thus Jews were one nation, even if they were citizens of Poland, Russia, Hungary, Italy, Spain, or Turkey.
Arabs, were another nation, whether they lived in Arabia, or Turkey, or Iran, etc.
A Greek did not become a Turk just because Turkey occupied Greece, etc.
The modern use of term “Nation” is falsification of reality.
Bedouin, or Arabs in Negev are not a part of the Israelite nation. It is unfortunate that they have Israeli citizenship, as most of them are not loyal to the Jewish (Israelite) state.