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2022-01-13T11:34:41.478Z


After the passage of the Electricity Law, the RAAM realized that it was possible to take another step with the ideology and even demand that the JNF stop planting trees. • The government continues to try to convince: there was no surrender


The Arab factions' demand to stop planting KKL-JNF in the Negev region this week is a direct continuation of the approval of the Electricity Law a week earlier.

Too considerate.

They thought the government had red lines.

That excessive demands on their part will cause the right-wing fringe in the coalition to dismantle the package.

There is a difference between financial demands, even in the tens of billions, and matters that directly concern the national, Zionist issue.


Mansour Abbas has repeatedly stated that in exchange for budgets he would be willing to put aside the national issue, the conflict and the political interest for some time.

Last week he realized that this must not be the case.

Which is certainly possible both.

And if it is possible on the way to shut up to the common list, which does not miss an opportunity to criticize and sting, what good.


In the political system, the Electricity Law is marked as the watershed.

Not only in the eyes of the RAAM and the Bedouin in the Negev, but also in the eyes of the Israeli public. Many, including those who support the government, did not believe that such a thing could happen. RAAM and the joint list. And more under fire, when the Bedouin in the area are raging, blocking roads, and throwing blocks on a railway track, an event that only miraculously ended without casualties.


According to the heads of the councils in the south, the feeling in recent days is the same feeling as on the eve of Operation Wall Guard.

The head of the Omar council defined what was happening on the outskirts of the council as a "mini intifada."

The fear among the Jews of the area is growing.

A sense of general loss of control.

There is no law and no order.

The first wave this week passed without any casualties, but the next waves will come.


We've been to this movie before


In 2020, Benjamin Netanyahu made several moves to approach the RAAM faction in the Knesset, after it became clear to him that Mansour Abbas would be willing to do business with him as part of the new line that led to a civic partnership between an Arab party and an Israeli government. The ground for the formation of the current government in cooperation with RAAM.

However, there are signs that in those days what led Netanyahu to cooperate with the Prime Minister was parliamentary cooperation, mainly to promote the law of direct election, perhaps also the Immunity Law, and torpedo personal laws.


One such significant step was Netanyahu's approval to establish three new Bedouin settlements in the Negev. The project promoters on his behalf were his economic adviser Avi Simhon and the head of the Bedouin Administration, Yair Maayan, who is more identified with Yisrael Beiteinu. At one point, to the surprise of some of the factors in the process, Simhon demanded the establishment of a fourth city, larger than the other three, and unlike the other localities used for a particular Bedouin tribe - a multi-tribal city.


Other people involved in the talks were Economy and Industry Minister Amir Peretz and his office's director general David Lefler, to whom the Bedouin administration was annexed as part of the blue-and-white coalition agreements. Extensive planting work is carried out by the JNF. Peretz promised to take care of the matter and turned to Yaakov Litzman, who was the Minister of Housing, the ministry in charge of the Israel Land Authority, which the JNF serves as the executive arm for planting. The chairman of the JNF and Said Al-Kharomi, who was the Bedouin representative, decided to stop planting for three weeks. A week later, with the intervention of the heads of the Jewish authorities in the Negev, the planting was renewed. In contacts to stop planting at any stage.


The government says there has been no surrender this week on the issue of plantings.

They went on and on, said senior Sarah.

Therefore, according to her, the PM did not go to the polls on Wednesday. , She said.


The Minister also rejects the criticism of the approval of the Electricity Law.

According to her, here too it is not a surrender of the government but rather of the RAAM. The law, according to her, is much less good for the Arabs than they think and from the impression created.


This time, there is no minister who can bend


The same watershed of the Electricity Law, has since the formation of the government put the heads of the settlements of Judea and Samaria into widespread protest against it.

The protest tent in front of the Prime Minister's Office, which began with the slogan "Pentateuch First," expanded during the week, following riots in the south and planting events, with a clear call to replace the government.

Surrendering to the RAAM and the radical left in the coalition has crossed every possible line for them. It is not easy for them to go out openly against the government. Many of them have regular working relations with many ministers they need. Going out against a Likud government The Likud and the ministers need them. Now the ministers are not committed to anything and the heads of the localities have no leverage.


According to them, protest measures will be intensified, and large demonstrations are also planned, among other things. This coming Tuesday, the Red Line headquarters and other right-wing organizations will also join. The Electricity Law provided electricity to the homes of many Arabs, but at the same time also ignited electricity in the right-wing ranks.


In the next two weeks, the Citizenship Law is expected to be put to a vote in the Knesset. Although contacts are taking place between the parties, the bargaining power of the opposition is dwindling. There, too, they understand that although the responsibility lies with the government - after the High Court ruling, which stated that Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked is not authorized to prevent family reunification due to the fact that the temporary order was not approved, they have no choice but to support the law.


Simcha Rotman, who coordinates the issue on behalf of the opposition, demands that two elements be added to the original law as a condition for its support: a transparency clause and a quotas clause.

Shaked is ready for the transparency clause but opposes quotas, which are too generous for her taste.

Instead of reducing the number of Arabs who receive citizenship a year, they will only increase it.

In general, they say in her environment, any change from the existing outline, which supported not only the right but also the work, has a future and blue and white, may lead to the intervention of the High Court. .

In the end, he fears, the survival of the government will be more important to it than a few thousand more Arabs who can enter the country's gates and get a blue ID card. 

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Source: israelhayom

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