When Naftali Bennett requested a meeting with King Abdullah, the Jordanians did agree but demanded that its existence be kept secret.
When the Prime Minister's Office leaked the summit, the Jordanian media barely addressed it. However, the king's meeting with MK Mansour Abbas and his al-Aqsa member Kamal Ryan was a well-publicized and high-profile initiative.
The Jordanians issued a statement to the media reporting that the meeting lasted four hours and discussed policy issues including the Palestinians and the Temple Mount.
The meeting should be examined against the background of recent revelations about the RAAM and the transfer of the budget, in order to understand the importance that King Abdullah attaches to it. With Hamas. In fact, the structure tree of the Islamic movement tells the story.
Ra'am is not a party that stands on its own two feet. It is a branch of the Islamic Movement (southern faction) that operates as a network. They are headed by Aid 48 and Al-Aqsa. All past and present heads of the associations are senior members of the Islamic State and the Islamic Movement. The movement on its affiliates has extensive ties with Hamas, which is also an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Al-Aqsa's address is the home of Ryan, who attended a meeting with the king alongside Abbas.
Ryan was the association's chairman from 2017-2009, and according to the investigation, the association received millions of shekels from Hamas funding funds in those years.
Sticks on the wheels of the sector
This week, the "Jewish Voice" reported that at the beginning of the "Knife Intifada" in 2015, al-Aqsa published an article by Hamas terrorist Ahmad Atun.
In the article, Aton incited the supporters of the organization to "sacrifice" for Jerusalem: "What is stolen by force will only be released by force."
In the following months, fifty Israelis were murdered.
The Temple Mount was the main focus of the violence.
Abbas himself has extensive ties with Hamas.
According to the New Yorker, he met in 2016 with Khaled Mashaal in Doha and with Hamas "military commanders."
Last week, Ayala Hasson reported that Abbas was the one who met with attorney Ephraim Damari a few years ago and asked him to represent the killers of the Fogel family.
At the same time as the revelations published about RAAM and other branches of the Islamic Movement with Hamas, the state budget passed a week ago. , Sharam controls it. In other words, the coalition agreement transfers control of the distribution of the state budget from state institutions to the political branch of the Islamic Movement.
As part of the budget, the Chumash 923 plan was passed, which in the coming years will inject about NIS 30 billion into Arab society.
As Amit Barak, a veteran activist for the integration of Arab-Israelis in Israeli society, revealed, unlike its predecessor, Plan 923 was not published for comments or public discussion.
According to Barak, in light of the coalition agreement signed by RAAM, the fear is that Abbas' party will harm those parts of Arab society that integrate into the state and Israeli society. Druze and Circassians who serve in the IDF in conscription, for example, may be harmed.
In a conversation with "Israel Hashavua", Barak clarified that "the superpower that the PMs have become in the Arab sector endangers the Arabs who are considering integrating into Israeli society."
Danger of irreversible damage
This week, Channel 7 published an interview with a senior intelligence officer, Lt. Col. A., who was recently discharged from the IDF. "The proof of the coordination of Hamas terrorist fronts in Gaza with the terrorist front within Israel," he said, was the fact that "all riots by Israeli Arabs were stopped immediately after Hamas' decision to stop The fire. This is not a characteristic of a popular uprising, and there is a very high level of control of Hamas in the process, in favor of the common Arab interest against Israel. "
There were quite a few people in the national camp (including the author of these lines) who saw Abbas' willingness to join a coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu as a kind of local translation of the Abrahamic agreements. The seeds for the agreements were sown a decade ago in response to the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power in Egypt, Tunisia and other Sunni countries. The Saudis and the Emirates, who for generations had supported the Muslim Brotherhood, suddenly saw them as an existential threat.
In Israel, the so-called "Arab Spring" has pushed many Arab citizens to stick to their Israeli identity. Thousands of Arab families chose to send their children to Jewish schools. According to a survey by the University of Haifa, in 2013, nearly ninety percent of youth in the Arab sector supported national service.
This whole process may now be reversed, because as we have learned from recent exposures - contrary to expectations, RAAM and the Islamic movement are the opposite of the spirit of the Abrahamic Accords. Like Hamas, RAAM is also an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood. While Hamas is waging violent jihad against Israel, Abbas said in an interview with the Arab media that he is waging a "civilian jihad" against Israel, designed to dismantle the country's Jewish identity.
And that brings us back to those four hours that Abbas and Ryan spent with King Abdullah on Tuesday. Attempts by Bennett's bureau and even by Abbas himself to present the meeting as a routine event did not survive Jordan's morning newspapers, which rejoiced at the important political meeting. Abbas himself revealed the truth; It promotes an extreme position that is contrary to the government's stated position on Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, he said on Wednesday morning. In an interview with Gali Tzahal, Abbas called on the Biden administration to open a consulate for Palestinians in the capital.
In a conversation I had with Bennett shortly before he left the right-wing bloc and formed the current government, he testified that he did not know how to relate to Abbas' readiness to join the coalition.
But "it is worth examining" the option of RAAM, he said. Now the results of the examination have come. It is time to dismantle this partnership, before irreversible damage is done to the nation-state of the Jewish people.
