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2021-04-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Courted by Likud, Ra’am adamant it will not back away from anti-Zionist charter
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Honesty is always helpful, even if not approved of by the King of Lies. [IsraelTimes] The Islamist Ra’am political party, positioned as a likely linchpin for any prospective governing coalition, is standing by its foundational charter, which forbids any allegiance to Israel and deems Zionism a "racist, occupying project," a senior party official told The Times of Israel this week.
The faction is being wooed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who needs the support of Ra’am to pass the 61-seat threshold for forming a majority coalition, or the party’s outside backing for a minority coalition. The party could also help an anti-Netanyahu bloc led by Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid. But some right-wing politicians, both in the pro- and anti-Netanyahu camps, have ruled out basing a coalition on the party’s support, due to what they say is an anti-Zionist stance; others, like the far-right Religious Zionism, have accused Ra’am of supporting terrorists.
Ra’am is the political wing of the Southern Islamic Movement, an organization inspired by the Moslem Brüderbund.
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| Inspired, my Aunt Fanny. Ra’am is the political party of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement, which is the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel, based in Kafr Qasim near Tel Aviv. The Northern Branch is the militant wing, based in Umm al Fahm in the Galilee, which coordinates with Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and Erdogan’s Turkey. An estimated 10% of Israel’s Arabs are connected to either the Northern or Southern Branch, if only through their charities. |
Updated in 2018 and reviewed at a 2019 conference in Nazareth which was reportedly chaired by Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas, the Southern Islamic Movement’s 80-page charter takes positions considered anathema by most Jewish Israelis.
It calls for the so-called right of return for Paleostinian refugees who left or were expelled in 1948, widely seen as a red line by most Zionist Israelis, who view an influx of potentially millions of Paleostinians to Israel as spelling the demographic end of the Jewish state. It compares the status quo in Israel and the territories to the short-lived Crusader kingdoms built by European invaders in the Holy Land in the Middle Ages.
"There can be no allegiance to [Israel], nor any identification with its Zionist, racist, occupier thought, nor any acceptance of any of the various forms of ’Israelification,’ which would shed us of our identity and particularity and rights," says the charter, provided to The Times of Israel last week by a senior figure in Ra’am.
Ra’am party officials have in recent months avoided discussing the charter or how their movement views controversial final-status issues relating to Israel and the Paleostinians as party leader Mansour Abbas has openly broached the possibility of cooperating with Netanyahu in order to win concessions for the Arab community aimed at fighting organized crime and improving quality of life.
Islamic Movement politicians campaigned in Arab towns and cities ahead of the March 23 elections on improving quality of life for Arab Israelis, winning four seats for the party, which had previously been part of the Joint List of Arab parties.
But despite the seeming dissonance between the charter and the party’s current public stance, a senior party official said there would be no significant changes to the document.
The Ra’am official said the document had yet to be finalized and okayed by party leadership, but any possible alterations would only be minor and not shift the party’s stance regarding the right of return or Paleostinian statehood.
The charter, which covers all aspects of the movement’s positions and activities, from its charity work to its religious worldview, embraces a two-state solution as a possible framework for ending the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, declaring that a Paleostinian state ought to be established "alongside Israel" in the West Bank, Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
, and Jerusalem. But it notes that a right of return for Paleostinians must be part of that kind of accommodation.
It advocates a single, binational state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea in the absence of a two-state formulation, but also indicates that advancing a Paleostinian state is not the first priority of the movement. The main goals relate to the Paleostinian community inside Israel.
"Our most important goal with regard to the State of Israel, regarding Paleostinian Arab society, is to maintain our presence in our homeland, to preserve our identity, and the Arab, Islamic, and Christian identities of our country, and to enable our community to achieve its rights in civil, national and religious spheres, and in the sphere of daily life," the charter says.
The party had planned to complete the document and translate it to Hebrew and English, but put that effort on hold in late 2018 as the country entered a period of unprecedented political instability. Israel has held four nearly consecutive elections since 2019, and Ra’am has spent the time since then campaigning, the official said.
Netanyahu has 23 days to cobble together a coalition, but the religious-right-wing alliance backing him is still several seats short of 61. Even with the support of Naftali Bennett’s Yamina, who has not committed to supporting either Netanyahu or Lapid, Likud would still fall two seats short without Ra’am. Complicating matters, the Religious Zionism party has refused to join a coalition based on the support of Ra’am, and Ra’am officials as well have said they will not cooperate with far-right politicians, albeit without naming names. 
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