Ra’am head Abbas says Israel will remain a Jewish state

21 December 2021, 1:54 pm

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Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra'am party, leads a faction meeting, in the Israeli parliament on October 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas says that Israel will always be a Jewish state.

The head of the Islamist party tells a Channel 12 conference that “Israel was born a Jewish state, that was the decision of the people, and the question is not what is the identity of the state — it was born this way and it will remain this way.”

“The question is what is the status of the Arab citizen in the Jewish State of Israel. That is the question. And this challenge does not just stand in front of Mansour Abbas, but in front of the Jewish community and the Jewish citizen.”

Abbas, whose party made history joining the government coalition, says that “there is no doubt that we are standing at the start of a new era.”