While you were sitting in the airplanes or running to take cover at the sound of the alarms; while United Airlines cancels a flight from New Jersey to Israel due to the fear of missiles being dropped on Israel, and our Air Force pilots often give up terrorist targets, in order to avoid harming those not involved - the leadership of The Arabs of Israel chose a side, the side of Gaza.
Although this is not a secret, the media - with the exception of important exceptions that most of the public in Israel is not exposed to (such as the Jewish Voice, now 14, the newspaper "Savi'i" or Channel 7) - did not make an issue of it.
Halka even spared us this information.
The media silence in front of the election of the Arab leadership during the "dawn" days is not really surprising.
It sucks from the continued repression and denial of large numbers of people, to the deep dimensions of the Arab national and religious struggle for the existence and sovereignty of Israel.
This struggle has long since spilled over from the front lines at the borders and the broad mask of terror in the depths of Israel's cities, and burst with great force into the consciousness of many of the country's Westerners and their leaders.
MK Mansour Abbas. A senior member of the Islamic movement called on him to do a soul-searching, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Want to, but can't
Take for example the RAM, apparently oriented towards the "civilian agenda", which it and its leader Mansour Abbas were hurt, if not actually offended, by the sharp criticism leveled at them by Sheikh Kamal Hatib. Hatib, former deputy head of the northern faction of the Islamic Movement in Israel, who was taken to Outlawed about seven years ago, he called on Mansour Abbas to do some soul-searching in the face of the war declared on "our people in Gaza" by Lapid, Bennett and Gantz - Abbas' coalition partners.
When Saddam Hussein fired missiles at Israel and the Palestinians in Yosh were dancing on the rooftops, Yossi Sharid wrote to them: "Look for me." When in Jaffa they are cheering for missiles being fired at us and an imam is praying that the Air Force will strike here - not a single left-wing person stood up
Abbas's almost immediate response message was indeed presented as proof that he does not intend to intervene in security issues, but a short time later, in an interview with Radio Nas, Abbas made it clear that the RA's position is clear as day - opposition to "any aggression against our people in the West Bank and Gaza". We are the only party, Abbas pointed out, who practically supports the Palestinian people. The RA's ability to influence, clarified Mr. Civil Agenda, does not exist at the moment, only because it is a transitional government that is not supported by a coalition: "The stage we are in today is that there is no coalition, and therefore you do not have Tools to influence within it."
I want to say - not that I don't want to.
I just can't.
For those who had difficulty understanding what he read, he offered a more explicit statement: "If we were in a permanent government, there would not have been an operation in Gaza, because we would have prevented it."
Minister Nachman Shai, in the rolling studio of Ila Hasson, tended to agree with him.
In response to the question of whether such an operation could have been carried out when an Arab party was a member of the government, Shai admitted that "when Israel was in the government - it was more difficult." MK Walid Taha himself (Chairman of the Knesset's Interior Committee) clarified in the post: "We We stand by our people in Gaza against the aggression and the war," and accused the Israeli government of using "the innocent blood of our people in Gaza... as fuel for political purposes."
"When Israel was in the government - it was more difficult." Nachman Shai, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Say - maybe these are the statements of individuals?
Perhaps this is not the official position of Ra'am? So that's it, no. Absolutely not individuals. In the official announcement of the general assembly of the Islamic movement (the southern faction), behind which the Knesset members of Ra'am and the chairman of the movement Safwat Frij stood, it was written black On top of that, the movement condemns Israel's aggression in Gaza and the "invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by Jewish extremists". In the same message, Israel was accused of killing dozens of innocent people, including children and women. The "assembly" - as if it were the Security Council - even called on the international community to intervene to stop the war, and on that occasion she emphasized that only Muslims have rights on the Temple Mount. This message of support in Gaza was joined by other senior officials in the southern faction, which the Palestinian Authority represents in the Knesset: former MKs Masoud Ganaim and Ebrahim Zarzour and Sheikh Kamal Ryan.
If - in the inversion of the well-known expression - in the Moss of the Wall, the "moderate" members of the RA, a flame fell, what would the cedars say? Balad issued a strongly condemning message to Israel and called the military situation in Gaza "barbaric aggression".
The chairman of the party, Sami Abu Shahada, called the IDF's actions in Gaza - "terrorism", and it is obvious that when the state bombs houses in the Gaza Strip, it is actually also shelling the homes of Jaffa Arabs, who are members of the same people.
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MK Aida Toma Suleiman from Hadash accused Israel of "aggression in Gaza".
Ayman Odeh, the chairman of the joint list, accused Israel of war crimes.
The silence of the left parties
During the first Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein fired Scud missiles at Israel and the Palestinians in Yosh were dancing on the rooftops for joy, the leader of Meretz Yossi Sherid published a resounding article in "Haaretz" under the title: "Look for me", which he addressed to the Palestinians. Today, when in Clock Square in Jaffa - Not in "Gada" - Israeli Arabs sympathize with the terrorist organizations in Gaza, and a local imam leads a prayer there for the downing of IDF planes and the dropping of Air Force bombs on the residents of Israel - there is not even one Zionist left leader to be found - not from Meretz, not from Labor and not from Blue and White Or there is a future - that will address a similar call to the Arabs of Israel.
Ayman Odeh.
He accused Israel of war crimes, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Also this week, in view of the attack near the Western Wall, as in the days of that Gulf War, and in many similar attacks since then - happy sirens of cars were heard.
In East Jerusalem, sweet words were shared, fireworks were shot into the air, and the residents of Silwan even tried to hinder the security forces from capturing the terrorist who carried out the attack.
During the "Dawn" days, near the main interchange in the Lower Galilee, Jews were pelted with stones, and in Haifa, at the Nablus gate, in Y'fia and in Sakhnin, Israeli Arabs protested the Israeli action against one of the most murderous and extreme terrorist organizations - the Muslim Jihad.
And no one on the left tweeted, and no one protested, and no one there thought it appropriate to direct the Arab citizens of Israel and their leaders, even those designated for future coalitions - Mansur Abbas and his party - a similar call: to look for us.
Even during the Wall Guard operation, after disturbances committed by Arab residents of the cities involved in their Jewish neighbors and their property, most of the Arab MKs took a similar line, and if we go back further to previous operations, we will discover a similar phenomenon of identification with the enemy.
The formal foundations for this were laid back in 2006 in the famous "vision documents" of the Israeli Arabs, whose introduction reads: "We are the Palestinian Arabs living in Israel, natives of the land and citizens of the country...", in this order, which has not changed since then.
Many of the Arab MKs explain time and time again that first of all they are Palestinians and only then Israelis, by virtue of their residence and citizenship. Another part is even more precise and defines itself not as an "Israeli Arab", but as an "Arab in Israel". Meaning: belonging is to a place and less 75 days before the elections for the 25th Knesset, this is an issue that deserves to be discussed, instead of being swept under the rug.
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