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A New Strategy for Israel’s Arabs: Aiding Netanyahu
Minority parties can gain major concessions by playing the political game — just ask the ultra-Orthodox.
Can Mansour Abbas cut a deal?
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Israelis who follow Lucy Aharish on social media are used to her being a breaker of barriers. An Israeli Arab married to a Jew, she has been a significant presence as a journalist, newscaster – she interviewed Hamas officials and asked them why they use their own citizens as human shields – actress and political activist.
A few weeks ago, though, Aharish posted on her Facebook page an interview that was eyebrow raising in an entirely new way. She was interviewing, in Hebrew, Mansour Abbas, the leader of the Israeli Arab political party, Raam.