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| Ra’am’s refusal to back Knesset break-up widens rift in mainly Arab Joint List |
| 2020-12-05 |
| [IsraelTimes] Balad MK calls decision by Ra’am faction leader Mansour Abbas to skip out on vote and break ranks with rest of alliance ’a blow to the platform of the Joint List’ Joint List is a coalition of Arab-Israeli political parties bribed and coached into existence by then-President Barack Obama’s favourite political consultants with the open intention that together with Labour they would defeat Bibi Netabyahu. But it was an unnatural coalition that has done much to damage Israel’s Left, and appears finally to be falling apart. This is a good part of the reason for the nightly anti-Netanyahu protests across Israel, the other part being lockdown boredom. Tensions rose in the Arab-led Joint List after one of its constituent factions skipped out on Wednesday’s Knesset vote on dissolving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, deepening an internal rift in the umbrella party.The decision by the Ra’am faction is being interpreted as a show of potential support for the premier, whose right-wing policies and alleged race-baiting have made him deeply unpopular among much of the Arab public, but whom faction leader Mansour Abbas has expressed an open willingness to work with. |
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