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Netanyahu's embrace of the Arab public is self-interested and cynical.

That does not mean it is insignificant

In the Nazareth speech, the Likud officially launched the campaign to win hearts and vote in the sector and the Prime Minister's attempt to open a new page after years of incitement and incitement. Netanyahu tries to weaken the common and separate the Arab electorate from voters - but the courtship campaign also reveals how relevant and influential they have become.

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Friday, 15 January 2021, 09:58

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In the video: Netanyahu in Nazareth says he does not remember the evenings before the election (Photo: Contact)

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened Nazareth's speech this week with the greeting of "Salam Aleichem" and declared a new era in Jewish-Arab relations, the mice of the archives grinned cynically.

In recent years, inciting and scathing videos, quotes and campaigns have been born in his house that have severely delegitimized Arab voters and their elected representatives - from the video "The Arabs are flocking", through the Nationality Law and the cameras at the polls, to defaming the possibility of a majority in the Knesset.

This time, he changed tactics: he invites the Arab public to join him, the ruling party, and there is a clear dividing line between him and his elected representatives in the Knesset.

And he is an artist in separation and rule.

"Prosperity, security and integration," Netanyahu promised again in a show he held in Nazareth, in which he officially launched the campaign to conquer hearts and foster new voices in the Arab sector.

Since the beginning of the month, he has visited the castle, Umm al-Fahm and Ramla, and on Sunday he will arrive with the Minister of Internal Security, Amir Ohana, in Lod.

He heaps compliments, scatters promises, weighs armor, and commits to programs - and most importantly - tries to convince that not so bad here and create a sense of partnership and belonging.

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Sleep tactics.

Netanyahu in the Nazareth Municipality, this week (Photo: Screenshot, Contact)

The Likud identified the normalization agreements with the Gulf states as a breaking point between public opinion in the Arab public and the slamming door slamming of the joint MKs, and Netanyahu shows it off and mentions it all the way to Dubai and back. The Likud estimates the voting potential in the Arab sector could reach 4-2 seats. And even if the campaign does not yield direct electoral value, it is intended to weaken the joint list and soften the effect of the protest vote.

History shows that Netanyahu's campaigns on the heads of the Arabs usually act as a boomerang: for example, the Bibi or Tibi campaign only strengthened the joint list. Between the second and third elections, which led to unprecedented voting and support rates in the sector, the visit to Nazareth also led to the opposite effect: Netanyahu was received warmly within the municipality by Mayor Ali Salam, who praised and praised him as the last of the Bibist fans and declared that "alive We were not as good as we are now "; but the scenery - outside - was jarringly opposite, with another unnecessary brutal demonstration by the police that detained without authority and the violence of MKs who were among the protesters.

The combined attack on the joint - Netanyahu and Salem on the inside, and the police on the outside - may actually strengthen the list at a very crucial moment.

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Unnecessary brutal demonstration.

Police remove MK Saleh from demonstration in Nazareth (Photo: Official website, Muhammad Khaliliya)

Netanyahu's show in Nazareth provoked great outrage among all factions of the joint - even among those who until a moment ago were considered his new friend, the chairman of Ra'am, Mansour Abbas, who hoped to carry the pragmatic cooperation with the right in the upcoming elections.

In recent months, Abbas has nurtured his publicized affair with Netanyahu and the Likud, and dreamed of running on an independent list based on the vision of Libra - and this week he revealed that the Likud is actually planning to steal his electorate. It is not unlikely that he will have to come down in the coming weeks. Running together and cooperating, and encrypting his independent plans for the time being in a drawer. Thus, Netanyahu may be the one to leave the list together.

All center-left leaders were summoned in the choir for a visit to Nazareth, but here too a cynical ridicule is required. Zionism - Netanyahu simply has the courage and political power to do what they fear and run away from, and even if his move is cynical and self-interested - it does not necessarily mean that it is insignificant and true.

The truth behind the courtship campaign

Netanyahu's courtship is part of a rolling process in which the Arab voice is strengthened and given a prominent place on stage.

Since the establishment of the joint list in 2015, and even more so in the new composition and the special political constellation created in the last two years, Arab MKs have become active and legitimate players in the political game, and the issues that occupy them take place in public and media discourse. The parliamentary issue of the joint list is not related to the Palestinian issue but focuses on personal security, employment, health, welfare and equality for the public they represent.This

process culminated after the last election, when the united political force reached a record 15 seats and took a significant part in a real attempt to replace the The government. Chairman Ayman Odeh made history when the joint recommended Bnei Gantz and gave him the mandate to form a government, and he and MK Ahmad Tibi even held a rare coalition meeting of its kind with Gantz, in which they raised various demands in exchange for outside support or cooperation.

The dreams of a governmental alternative vanished when Gantz formed the unity government with Netanyahu, and the great promise of the common failed.

That's where the fall in the polls began, long before the peace doves and normalization flights to the Gulf.

Active players on the field.

Heads of the joint list (Photo: Reuven Castro, Photo: Spokeswoman for the joint list)

Even then, the process continued to unfold under the leadership of Mansour Abbas, who was the first to identify the disappointment and growing sentiment towards Netanyahu in the Arab public, and soon became one of the most sought-after interviewees in the studios.

Abbas' call for liberation from the left and to examine utilitarian collaborations with Netanyahu and the right created a deep rift in common, and still threatens its continued existence, but it created a wave of unprecedented public interest in inter-party Arab politics, once again placing them on stage as legitimate political actors. .

It also spawned a political race to approve plans that would benefit the Arab population and a host of credit wars for achievements: while Abbas nurtured his ties with Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin and Prime Minister Tzachi Braverman, Odeh formed an alliance with former Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn who responded with their own moves. Pentecost 922, and thus the Kaminitz Law was frozen.On the plan to fight crime in the Arab sector, the members of the list will already have to fight with Netanyahu, who will surely try to keep all the credit only with him.

Protest in Nazareth, this week (Photo: Yoav Itiel)

24 hours after the visit to Nazareth, the Likud party issued a statement in which it clarified that it would not form a government with the joint list or rely on it, not even on Abbas, to sharpen the dividing line between the public and its elected representatives.

Netanyahu tries to dwarf the common and present them as sitting in opposition and doing nothing, but his courtship campaign shows just the opposite - how relevant and influential they have become in the game.

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