Alone in the field is not a warrior.
Mansour Abbas's political line also receives a stage design: on the eve of the Knesset plenum session, the deputies of the United Arab List (RAM) traditionally left the hall before the Israeli national anthem was played. All but one: the party chairman remained in place.
This is a rather revealing gesture, especially in the context of the reported willingness of the Prime Minister to recognize the Hamas movement as a terrorist organization in exchange for a "true partnership" with the opposition bloc and the willingness of Gadi Eisenkot to accept him into the new government.
It is worth noting that the Deputy Prime Ministers, like other Arab parties in the Knesset, always left the hall before Tikva began. But Mansour Abbas's move is not a novelty: at the swearing-in ceremony of the 25th Knesset in 2022, he also remained in the audience together with a member of the Hadash party.
In the context of current events, this was especially noticed (of course, voters of Jewish parties were surprised by such an event as something special). At the same time, the actions of the leader of Ra'am find a negative reaction among a certain part of the Arab population.
For such a pragmatic politician as Mansour Abbas, this is not an obstacle: he has a fairly loyal personal electorate that understands the chairman's logic. This gives him the opportunity to take steps forward faster than the Israeli opposition has to decide if it needs such a partner.
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