Israeli Unity, the Two-State Solution and Arab Parties

When unity begins with recognizing that opposing views are legitimate, it’s the most justified thing in the world.

When the goal is shared, meaning between brothers who want a large, strong, thriving Jewish and democratic state here and disagree about the way to get there, which is legitimate.

Someone might think that establishing what I call a terror state is okay, for Israel’s benefit. No, two states. There was a faction in the Knesset I think that today there are almost no such people among the people of Israel,

but there were times when there was a faction in the Knesset that thought two states were a good solution.

To establish a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria.

He did it because he thought that it was what was good for the State of Israel.

I think it’s dangerous for the State of Israel, but we both want what’s best for the State of Israel.

That’s a strong common ground. We can debate the right balance between the Knesset, the government, and the judicial system.

We can debate the powers of the attorney general whether there’s a veto or not.

Only if she is disqualified. But this happens between people whose goal is shared.

They, they’re happy on Independence Day.

They want the State of Israel to be happy.

They understand that what we're doing here is reassembling, again and again, after two thousand years of exile, displacement, and migrations back.

Returning to our homeland after being forcibly expelled from it.

They understand this narrative, and we can debate what's right here.

Sadly, the two Arab parties, both the Joint List and Ra'am, its members, want other things.

As far as they're concerned, Independence Day is feminine. It's a disaster.

Gadi Yoram That's what's at stake now. Now, it's true, the people of Israel didn't let either you or us lead them alone.

What can you do? I admit, I very much wanted us to get a majority and be able to lead according to our way.

You wanted the same thing. The people of Israel gave neither us nor you a majority.

Now we can go to another election or look for a way to form a unity government with lots of concessions and mutual consideration from both of us, without boycotts or exclusions.

And this rush to go and form a government again— you're not going to see that.

It's heartbreaking. What a shame for the Arab public.

Again and again and again, he votes for these parties.

He just had an opportunity, for example, to vote for Right. Yusef Haddad, a Zionist Arab.

Unfortunately, you can count on a few hands the number of votes he got in Arab society.

And Arab society voted for parties that, well, deny the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish state.

They want something else. Just read this.

Yoram, do you speak Arabic? Before the previous, previous elections, I invested when the idea of forming a government with Ra'am came up.

Back then, there wasn't this GPS where you could scroll through a document and get it in Hebrew.

I invested 30,000 shekels in translating materials from Arabic into Hebrew to learn about the Islamic Movement.

Its roots go back to 1918, when it was founded between the Islamic and Israeli sides.

The same method of disruption, the same concealment.

To understand what happened later, in the seventies and eighties.

How did Hamas come into being in Gaza? We built it. The State of Israel identified a moderate force here against the PLO, which was the extremist force.

Now that's right, because they did acts of love, They worked in education, health, welfare, and society, They built the power on which they built the military wing.

That's the method. That's been the method all these years.

Knesset Member Abbas. Mansour won't help you shout.