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| Joint List’s Abbas warns about Arab alliance’s future after some MKs vote to bar conversion therapy |
| 2020-07-26 |
| [IsraelTimes] A Joint List ...the coalition of Arab-Israeli political parties bribed and coached into existence by then-President Barack Obama’s favourite political consultants with the open intention that together with Labour they would defeat Bibi Netabyahu. But it was an unnatural coalition that has done much to damage Israel’s Left, and appears finally to be falling apart... politician warns the future of the Arab political alliance could be in doubt after its leader Ayman Odeh voted in support of a bill barring psychotherapists from performing gay conversion therapy, the Kan public broadcaster reports.According to Kan, MK Mansour Abbas says the continued existence of the Joint List depends on the behavior of its politicians in the near future. He adds that many of the party’s supporters are angry over Odeh and others’ backing of the bill and are demanding the breakup of the Joint List. Abbas heads the Ra’am faction, which is affiliated with the southern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel. ...the “moderate” political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel that since 1996 has stood for seats in the Knesset; the Northern Branch goes in for riots on the Temple Mount via their Mourabitoun cadres, funding Hamas, and social services in Arab villages in the Galilee. |
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