Since the current election was announced, several right-wing candidates and parties have said they would not rely on Ra’am to make up the 61 seats in a narrow coalition, but some have left the possibility of sitting with the party in a broader constellation vague. Ghanaim’s refusal to vote with the coalition in May and June was a contributing factor to the patchwork of discord leading to the coalition’s June collapse and snap election.īy stacking the deck with politicians familiar with the compromises necessary to navigate coalition politics, and especially those tested throughout the past rocky year of the coalition, Ra’am will be better positioned to sell itself as a reliable coalition partner.Īlhawashla said that Abbas does not interfere with primary politicking, but declined to comment on why he entered the race for the Knesset slate. The party integrated political outsider and former Sakhnin mayor Mazen Ghanaim into its Knesset slate last year, but was unable to enforce coalition discipline on the lawmaker when confronted with ideologically difficult scenarios related to security and Palestinians. Ra’am also faced challenges from within its slate. Turn-of-the-year Bedouin riots over perceived land grabs by the state in the Negev, as well as clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police on the Temple Mount during Ramadan, led to Ra’am’s threatened and actual coalition timeouts. Ra’am previously ran under the Joint List’s electoral slate and later with one of its constituent parties, but broke off and competed for votes independently in advance of the 2021 elections.Īlthough Abbas endeavored to make Ra’am a reliable coalition partner, joining hands with an eclectic mix of eight parties across the political spectrum took its ideological toll.
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Because then the Joint List” - a majority Arab faction that eschews coalitions until Palestinian national aspirations and full equality are achieved - “will say, ‘we told you so,'” said Jabareen.Įhab Jabareen, political analyst. If they return to opposition benches, then the experiment failed. “Ra’am can’t return to the opposition benches. While Abbas and his supporters claim the past year was only the beginning of a “process” requiring more time to deliver tangible results, little movement has been made on key Arab voter issues, including reducing crime in Arab towns and finding a solution for unpermitted home construction in Arab localities, including the Negev.
Led by a bold vision from Abbas, Ra’am broke with tradition to become the first independent Arab party to join an Israeli coalition last year. “In his political views, he’s closer to Mansour,” Awawdeh added. Wadi’a Awawdeh, political analyst for Arabic language Radio Nas, said that “it’s known that is a pragmatist,” which he defined as an Arab politician who will cooperate with mainstream Israeli politics if it will serve his interests.
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