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April 23, 2021

Can the Quran Solve Israel’s Political Impasse?

“O my people! Enter the Holy Land which Allah has ordained for you to enter.”

Among the factors contributing to the current parliamentary deadlock in the Jewish state is that Bezalel Smotrich, head of the newly formed Religious Zionist Party, refuses to sit in the same government as Mansour Abbas’s Islamist Ra’am party, noting that Ra’am’s 2018 charter calls Zionism “a racist, occupying project.” Daniel Pipes sees a clear, if unlikely, solution: Abbas can reform his party’s platform so as to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, and in exchange Smotrich can back down. Moreover, Abbas can do so while remaining true to his principles:

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April 23, 2021

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