Top Arab-Israeli Leader Tells AFP Opposition Must Join to Oust Netanyahu
Arab parties with 19 Knesset seats say they can help unseat Benjamin Netanyahu and press for curbs on far-right ministers.
- On Monday, Yousef Jabareen, leader of the Arab-led Joint List, told AFP it is time for opposition members to accept "political reality" and join forces to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Last week's inconclusive election left the pro-Netanyahu bloc with 53 seats and the opposition with 48, both well short of the 61-seat majority required to govern without Arab-led parties.
- Opposition camp leader Gadi Eisenkot has expressed misgivings about including Arab parties, while Avigdor Liberman of Yisrael Beiteinu has publicly opposed such a partnership.
- President Isaac Herzog will begin meeting party representatives this week to determine government formation, while Jabareen met with Raam leader Mansour Abbas on Monday and plans to meet The Democrats' Yair Golan on Tuesday.
- Jabareen demands potential partners repudiate Netanyahu's "path of wars, destruction in Gaza and settler terrorism in the West Bank," framing his party's positions as rooted in human rights and international law.
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The opposition won 67 of the 120 seats in the Knesset, but it needs the support of the Arab parties to form a government. Prejudices against these groups could frustrate the alternation reflected in the election results
With a historic score, the so-called "Arab" parties could oust the outgoing Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, from power with the rest of the opposition. Yet the Zionist parties would have to agree to lean on them to provoke alternation.
The five leaders of the "block of change" met for the first time since the legislative elections on 27 October.
However, members of the opposition bloc, who won 48 seats against 53 for the Benyamin Netanyahu camp, did not explain how they intended to take control of the parliament.
'Accept political reality': Top Arab-Israeli leader urges opposition to seize 'historic opportunity' to oust Netanyahu
Joint List chief Yousef Jabareen asserted that Eisenkot's bloc could not form the government without his party's support, urging parties to accept this reality.
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