Israeli Arabs Show Signs of a “Normalization” of Their Own
Will Arab parties turn away from anti-Zionism and toward their constituents’ everyday concerns?
November 2, 2020
Israeli Arabs Show Signs of a “Normalization” of Their Own
Will Arab parties turn away from anti-Zionism and toward their constituents’ everyday concerns?
Last week, after a question of parliamentary procedure sparked fierce debate in the Knesset, something unusual happened: the parliamentarian who chaired the vote in question—a member of the Joint Arab List—broke ranks with the opposition and declared that his Likud opponents were right. Since then, the dissenting MK, Mansour Abbas, has been the target of outrage from his fellow member of the Joint List, and much attention from the Israeli Arab media. Haviv Rettig Gur suggests that Mansour Abbas might be the harbinger of a new kind of Arab politics, less tied to the Palestinian cause, less dogmatically anti-Zionist, and more interested in improving the day-to-day lives of its constituents:
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