WHEN THE US AND FORMER USSR were threatening each other — this dates back to the 1920s — no Communists were to be found in the U.S. congress.
Indeed, Sen. Joe McCarthy (R – Wisconsin) is known for his infamous witch hunt of Communists, particularly those in Hollywood.
Today, these people known as “progressives” and Socialists are entrenched in congress (viz: Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman) along with far left lawmakers.
HOWEVER, ISRAEL is expected to allow sworn enemies of the country to sit it its Knesset (congress/parliament).
This means members of the Muslim (Arab) political parties, specifically Ra’am, not Muslim and Druze members of the pro-Israel parties.
According to an opinion piece by Dan Schueftan heded: Arabs are not the problem, radicalism is (https://tinyurl.com/wwje4emc),
“In the past, these leaders voted against the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty and the Abraham Accords.” On both national and municipal levels, they present Israel as an illegitimate colonial project whose very existence is a sin. The "heroes" they look up to are PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and the Hamas terrorist organization.
“Time has shown that integrating Arab parties into the government did not mitigate their hate. When Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was supported by the Arab parties, Arab MK Ahmad Tibi openly pleaded Arafat's case even after it became known that he perpetrated several terrorist attacks against Israelis.
Arab MK Hashem Mahameed who served on Rabin’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, “called Arabs that support Israelis "traitors" and vowed that they would be eliminated. For him, Hezbollah was a ‘national liberation movement,’ and its terrorists ‘freedom fighters.’ He said that in all the years of Israel's existence, there was not a single military operation, not even Operation Entebbe, that was legitimate self-defense.”
Schueftan’s “bottom line” is that “integrating these parties into the government will only bring about more provocations, creating more obstacles for Arab Israelis to integrate into Israeli society.”
Ayman Odeh, head of Israel’s Arab-majority Joint List political body, has called for a Palestinian uprising and praised Arab youth for their active role in recent clashes with Israeli forces and Jewish residents in Jerusalem. (https://tinyurl.com/3twkyfta)
“This wonderful and honorable victory belongs to the youth of Jerusalem. These clashes are sometimes calm and sometimes erupt, and it will be so until the intifada comes and brings an end to the occupation and hoists the Palestinian flag over the Al-Aqsa Mosque, over the churches, and over the liberated gates of Jerusalem. We extend our greetings to the free people of Jerusalem.”
Losing support?
WHILE THE POLITICIANS are calling for provocations against Israel, the PEOPLE seemingly are more and more disenchanted with the rhetoric.
If Israel would provide better services to Muslim communities — specifically improved infrastructure and better police presence, items the Israeli Muslims are rightly demanding — the nation might put an end to much of the internal strife.
Muslims, like Jews, Druze, and others have all the rights and privileges, albeit the Muslims have fewer obligations. (They are not obliged to serve in the Israeli military or even do national service in their own communities.)
The Muslims of Jerusalem complain that their neighborhood’s infrastructure and services are not on a par with other neighborhoods. Blame can be laid, at least in part, on Muslim Members of Knesset (MKs) who would rather berate the state than work to improve fellow Muslims’ conditions.
There is a higher murder rate in the Muslim neighborhoods than in Israel in general.
Unfortunately, the neighborhoods’ residents must share some of the blame with the understaffed Israeli police. As in the U.S., it is considered traitorous to help the police catch one of your own. Until that changes, no one should expect positive change.
Some Muslim MKs forget they were elected to improve the situation of all Muslims in Israel.
Some openly support the PLO/PFLP, Hamas, and other Iran-supported anti-Israel movements and call for the destruction of the country. Were it not for the freedoms and financial success they enjoy in a state they hate, they could (should) move to PLO/PFLP or Hamas areas.
(Notice that they do not — like Hollywood progressives — rush to leave the country they hate.)
The Muslim voter migration away from the anti-Israel parties — that in reality do not work for the people — is hardly a “ground swell,” but by many accounts is growing.
Unfortunately, Israeli MKs (so far) are not required to live with their constituents, although there is a (weak) movement to change that. Change comes slowly to long-embedded habits.
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