In the past week, RAAM boycotted coalition votes in protest of moves promoted by right-wing Knesset members of the government.
“We are in talks with the coalition partners,” Abbas continued, adding that “in the end we reached agreements last week. We just want to convey this message – it is not enough to give with one hand and with the other hand to prevent. Yes I met with Ayelet Shaked, we are always in touch.” .
“It is not a matter of the right wing and the left wing. All the ministries have simple actions that need to be promoted,” added the chairman of Ra’am. They accepted us – we just need to pay attention to the issues that are on the table. “
“We are inside, there is no doubt that we wanted this government,” Abbas clarified. “Things need to be planned in addition.”
The chairman of RAAM also referred to the criticism from home, from the Arab society on the conduct of his party so far: “The matter is not achievements. We have tremendous achievements, every month there are decisions that are made. We look at strategies, and need to implement them. The issue is simply for the public. “
Two days ago, Mansour Abbas was quoted in an interview he gave in Arabic to “Makhan” radio when he said that the State of Israel is an occupying state that discriminates against its Arab citizens. When a few months ago he said that Israel is the state of the Jewish people. “I have one line – everyone who understands and knows, knows that I speak one language,” he hastened to clarify: “There are political elements and also in the media who try to blacken my face. On the one hand to present me as a supporter of terrorism “I am the same sawmill that looks to the future and not to the past. There is no zigzag.”