Why does Mansour Abbas make Arab and Jewish politicians uneasy?
Arab leaders have roundly criticized the Ra am chairman for negotiating with Lapid and Bennett to become part of the coalition, while right-wing politicians were unhappy with a government that includes an Arab party for the first time; but Abbas says he is choosing pragmatism over ideology
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Published: 07.10.21, 08:45
As the Knesset pulled an all-nighter debating the renewal of the Citizenship and Entry Into Israel Law that bans the automatic granting of citizenship to Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens, Abbas, head of the Islamist Ra’am party, negotiated a compromise with his coalition partners to extend the law by just six months instead of one year and to work to find humanitarian solutions for thousands of Palestinian spouses living in Israel on temporary residence permits.
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