Published: 6 July 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
GIDEON LEVY: Mansour Abbas proposes to forget about Palestinians trampled under the occupation in return for improvements for those who hold Israeli citizenship
ABBAS OFFERS A new deal – a deal not easy to stomach for Arabs or justice-seeking Jews. But those dreaming of a single democratic state – without the two-state babble or the disgrace of apartheid – will find this deal hard to resist.
The deal simply states: more money rather than freedom, more budgets rather than slogans, more houses rather than words, more jobs rather than statements.
Abbas will be far more palatable to the Jews than the freedom fighters, who should have inspired far more respect than him. He proposes to forget about his brothers and sisters who are trampled under the boots of the occupation, in return for improvements for his brothers and sisters who hold Israeli citizenship.
FULL STORY A pleasant illusion by an impressive Israeli Arab politician (Haaretz)
GIDEON LEVY: The more senior Abbas, Mahmoud, is supposedly much more important than Mansour. But this drab Abbas is destined to make a change.
What's driving Israeli Islamist leader Mansour Abbas? (Haaretz)
He quotes the Koran as precisely as he cites Switzerland's Constitution. His campaign was flagrantly homophobic but he speaks differently in backrooms. He has no compunctions about cruelly turning his back on his associates. Mansour Abbas is now in position of unprecedented influence in Israeli politics. What’s next for him?
Bedouin MK seeks change for community through ‘experiment’ of joining government (Times of Israel)
With demolitions of Bedouin homes peaking, Ra’am’s Said al-Harumi hopes being part of coalition will limit such actions, and points to legalisation of eight towns as a start
