Israel’s Relations with Its Arab Neighbors and Its Arab Citizens Are Undergoing Normalization. Could the Palestinians Be Next?
The pandemic created a sense of unity between Jewish and Arab Israelis.
April 28, 2021
Israel’s Relations with Its Arab Neighbors and Its Arab Citizens Are Undergoing Normalization. Could the Palestinians Be Next?
The pandemic created a sense of unity between Jewish and Arab Israelis.
Perhaps the most surprising and welcome development in Israeli politics this year is the conservative Islamic party Ra’am’s declaration that it would sit in a governing coalition, either with Likud or with Likud’s opponents—something no Arab party has ever done in Israel’s history. Dan Diker and Khaled Abu Toameh argue that this move is not a fleeting bit of political opportunism, but the culmination of a years-long effort by the party’s leader—the dentist-turned-parliamentarian Mansour Abbas—to change the nature of Arab politics in the Jewish state:
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