Joint List MK Mansour Abbas, who chairs the Arab alliance’s Ra’am party (which is now a faction in the Joint List party), tells Channel 12 he does not rule out supporting legislation to protect Netanyahu from criminal proceedings in exchange for legislation benefiting his community.
Rumors have flown in recent days of Abbas growing closer to Netanyahu nad potentially aiding him politically.
“If I get funds and [beneficial] legislation, I don’t mind giving Netanyahu what’s needed,” Abbas tells the network.
Mansour Abbas of the Ra’am party holds a press conference after a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
Surprise at Abbas’s recent about-face is doubled by the fact that Ra’am, which is connected to the Islamic Movement in Israel, is known to be one of the more hardline factions in the Joint List.
Netanyahu has repeatedly demonized the lawmakers of the Joint List, while accusing his opponents of attempting to cooperate with them against him,
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