Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
ZOA calls upon all Israeli parties, Knesset members, and leaders to stand firmly against making any coalition with the anti-Israel Ra’am Islamic Movement party and Ra’am’s four members of Knesset (MKs) elected on March 23: Ra’am Chairman Mansour Abbas; Walid Taha; Said al-Harumi; and Iman Khatib-Yasin. Negotiating with Ra’am only legitimizes their abhorrent anti-Israel beliefs and policies. (ZOA would have no problem with Israeli parties negotiating with any Israeli Arab party which is clearly loyal to the Jewish State of Israel and hostile to Israel’s enemies.
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Ra’am Chairman Mansour Abbas’ Speech in Arabic a Few Days Ago Revealed His Goal of Eliminating Israel, Called Israel’s Very Existence the “Nakba” (Catastrophe): During the past week, Ra’am Chairman Abbas gave one speech in Hebrew, calling for greater integration of Arab society in Israel, without mentioning his Palestinian nationalist goal of eliminating Israel – and then gave an entirely different speech in Arabic, in Nazareth, posted on his Facebook page.
In his Arabic speech, Abbas called Israel’s re-establishment and very existence the “Nakba” (catastrophe); praised Arabs who maintain a separate Palestinian Arab identity as opposed to an Israeli identity; and vowed to maximize Arab power, with the goal of making “Palestine” a reality and praising a future “Palestine” as the “diamond in the crown of the Arab Islamic community.” Why is he, a potential member of the Israeli Knesset, profusely praising and imagining the greatness of a potential foreign entity which is a dictatorship and enemy of Israel, which refuses to negotiate with and incites violence against Israel, and pays Arabs to murder Jews? Abbas stated:
“We stand before our people and the Arab Palestinian society modestly, and bow our heads in honor and glory of this precious society - which lived the Nakba, clung to this land and maintained its identity. Its status is in our hearts and in the hearts of the entire nation. Thanks to them, Palestine will not remain a mere memory.
“The good community left on this land - for me and for us we continue the journey. They are the conscience that guides us and they are the roots. These are pegs planted in our lands, and our goal is to continue to strengthen this bond and power, to maximize this power, until this nation becomes the diamond in the crown of the Arab Islamic community.”
ZOA urges Israel’s leaders to remember how PLO terrorist Yasser Arafat spoke about peace in English in 1993 to obtain the benefits of the Oslo Accords, while at the same time, he spoke about destroying Israel in Arabic. Arafat then incited and planned the intifadas—terror wars, in which Arab terrorists maimed or murdered 10,000 innocent Jews. The speech in Arabic reveals an Arab leader’s real goals. Ra’am Chairman Abbas’ goal is the Jewish state’s elimination. His words are not the words of a loyal Israeli citizen.
