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MK Chikli: I Have Come to Rebel Against the Winds That Want to Put Out the Menorah
By Yoni Weiss
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Yamina MK Amichai Chikli. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
First-time MK Amichai Chikli (Yamina) delivered his inaugural speech in the Knesset Plenum on Tuesday and said, “Some people in this building call me a rebel. I wish I were worthy of that title. Jewish history is replete with rebellions. Avraham rebelled against his father’s idolatry; Moshe rebelled against Pharaoh. We are part of a small nation that, in order to preserve its identity and freedom, the oil and the menorah, was willing to dare to rebel against the mightiest empires in the history of civilization: Assyria, Babylon, Greece, Rome Germany and Britain.
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By Hamodia Staff
Updated Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 5:29 pm
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Updated Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 5:29 pm
Ra’am party leader Mansour Abbas calls for peaceful coexistence at a press conference in Nazareth, Thursday. (David Cohen/Flash90)
In what had been described in the media as a “widely anticipated speech,” Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas did not deliver what had been hoped for naming his choice for prime minister.
Abbas, whose four-MK Islamist party could be decisive to the formation of a majority coalition, instead spoke about unity and peaceful coexistence.
“I don’t rule out the right, nor the left,” he said, repeating his post-election motto at an appearance in Nazareth given in Hebrew on Thursday evening. It was carried live by Israeli news channels, and the full text was printed in the media, reflecting Abbas’s sudden leap to prominence as a political kingmaker.
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