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Joint List of Arab parties partly disintegrating as talks with Ra’am founder
Watch the sausage making. How on earth does Bibi Netanyahu always manage to trip up his enemies, just when they’re sure that this time they’ve finally got him nailed firmly to the wall? They’ve got a week to figure it out, but if they have less than 3.25% of the vote, whatever that means, they’ll be off the ballot altogether. [IsraelTimes] Representatives of three of the four Arab parties which compose the Joint List ...Barack Obama’s plan to nail that uppity Bibi to the wall by sending his political organizers to buy unity among Israel’s Arabs and connect them in a Democratic Party-style bloc with the labour socialists. That was the first time he tripped them up — and now Labour may not even make the cut... said on Wednesday night that negotiations to maintain the unity of the bloc have failed, making it likely that they will not run together in the coming March elections."We’ve failed, unfortunately. The Joint List will not continue in its current lineup," said Balad MK Mtanes Shehadeh, adding later: "At this point, we cannot continue as the Joint List because of our fundamental political differences." Ethnicity when not supported by copious outside funding is not enough to sustain joint effort from philosophical opposites? I’m shocked. Former president Barack Obama would no doubt be livid about seeing another chunk of his legacy torn away, were it not for the quality of the weed he can score now that it’s legal almost everywhere. Tensions among the four Arab parties had been rising steadily over the past few months, stoked by renegade Ra’am party chief Mansour Abbas. Abbas has publicly pursued closer ties with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a move seen by his Joint List colleagues as beyond the pale.Posted by: trailing wife 2021-01-28 |
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