Along with the launching of rockets towards the Gaza Strip that has not stopped since last night, the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Mansour Abbas, commented today (Saturday) in a post in Arabic on the "Dawn" operation in the Gaza Strip and wrote that "the Arab parties have no real influence in regards to security and policy decisions."
Abbas wrote in the post: "We are opposed to any war in which victims and innocents fall, but we have no real influence on Israel's foreign and security policy. I am most surprised that the Arab parties are being blamed as if starting the war and ending the war is in the hands of these parties."
The chairman of RAM emphasized that the Arab parties have no influence on the escalation that is taking place in the Gaza Strip: "Whoever says otherwise is selling illusions to our people and our society. According to this, and over the years, no Arab representatives were present or represented in the Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, and Arab parties refrained from participating in any Voting on security and foreign affairs.
Bennett, Lapid and Abbas in the Knesset plenum (archive), photo: Oren Ben Hakon
"On this basis, the Ra'am party chose to be part of the coalition, not the government, and we refused ministerial portfolios, so as not to be present in the debate about war decisions and other difficult decisions for us as Arabs. We are ready to accept a role in peace decisions, and personal security for all citizens, we have not failed and We will fail in this. This is our ambition and this is our hope."
He also noted that "in our realistic approach, we said from the beginning that there is no difference between the right and the left in Israel. And today, even though we were in the coalition for a relatively short time, I worked and met for our company with Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett, Gantz, Lapid and others, and I can say from experience that there is no difference between them in foreign and security affairs.
"On this basis, I say: presenting the Knesset as an arena of national struggle is a mistake and an illusion, and the Arab parties must recognize this fact. There are other arenas of struggle, which have their role and mechanisms of action, and we in the Knesset are left to define the parameters of our role with complete transparency in front of the people ours, and adjust our expectations with them according to our real abilities, realistically and logically."
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