Tibi says Netanyahu first ‘legitimized Mansour Abbas and then made him out to be a terror supporter’

Hadash-Ta’al MK Ahmad Tibi accuses presumed incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of legitimizing Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas and then turning on him for political ends.

“Netanyahu legitimized and whitewashed Mansour Abbas and afterward made him out to be a terror supporter, all because of political interests, in the most disgusting way, like only he can,” Tibi says on a podcast with Nadav Perry.

After the 2021 election, Netanyahu was widely reported as being in coalition talks with Ra’am that ultimately fell apart, and Ra’am later joined the outgoing government, which ousted Netanyahu. During this year’s election campaign, many of the right-wing parties painted Ra’am as a backer of terror and portrayed the outgoing coalition as relying on terror supporters.

Tibi also says he supports the reunification of the Joint List political alliance, which once consisted of Hadash, Ta’al, Balad and Ra’am.