Mansour Abbas,
| ...political head of the political arm of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel. Like Muslim Brotherhood parties elsewhere, they will ride the train down the iron rails of democratic politics and charity until the train reaches their station at the formation of the Caliphate, avoiding as much as possible all that messy bloodshed until afterward. It’s also important to check his public statements against what he says in private in Arabic, just in case taqqiya is involved... |
"Better to serve, to come and try to do things, and [then] to give an opportunity [for someone else]," he told the Knesset Channel,
The politician said that when he was first elected to the parliament, "I came in with an agenda," noting that it "evolved" over time.
"I came in with an agenda to deal with crime and violence in Arab society; it evolved into an agenda of influence and values-based civic partnership, and today you can add to that [the goal of] achieving peace and an end to the [Israeli-Paleostinian] conflict, etc.
"I have one more chance, and I’ll run — probably — in the next elections, and try to take action to realize the goals I’ve set out for myself in the coming term, and then, I don’t think I should continue to be a Knesset member," he said.
Israel is next set to hold elections in October 2026, though they could occur before then if the government collapses.
Abbas’s Islamist Ra’am party made a landmark, controversial move to join a ruling Israeli coalition — the 2021-2022 Naftali Bennett-Yair Lapid government, a diverse collection of right-wing, centrist and left-wing parties that temporarily ousted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power after the latter led the country since 2009.
The government made major investments in the Arab Israeli sector, which has seen a deadly surge in
Abbas vocally condemned the Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...terror group’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, and demanded that party MK Iman Khatib-Yasin resign following remarks she made a few weeks after the onslaught casting doubt on whether women were raped or babies killed during the onslaught (both phenomena have been documented). Khatib-Yasin apologized and was sanctioned by the Knesset, though she did not resign.
Amid the subsequent war on Hamas in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, Ra’am has accused Israel of committing war crimes in the enclave, and in July Abbas drew condemnation when he claimed from the Knesset rostrum that "50,000 civilians have been murdered in Gaza" — a reference, presumably, to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry’s casualty figures, which, in addition to being disputed, do not exclude combatants, of which Israel claims to have killed some 20,000.
Fellow Arab Israeli MK Ayman Odeh, the head of the Hadash-Ta’al party, also announced in 2023 that he is set to quit politics after the next election.
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