Mansour Abbas has been the biggest voice for reason and peace among the Palestinians for the last few years.
Mansour Abbas (Not to be confused with Mahmoud Abbas the terrorist dictator) might become the closest thing the Palestinians ever had to a peaceful Palestinian leader. If his popularity will grow of course.
If his party wasn’t an Islamist party, I would seriously consider voting for Mansour Abbas in the next election. He is truly a great man. He has done and said many things that are not popular in the greater Arab world, but he is doing everything he can to make Arab Israelis’ lives better (which none of the other Arab parties do, they just virtue signal about Palestinians without doing anything proactive about it).
This man is making me truly believe we might have a peaceful two state solution in my lifetime if he can garner enough support amongst Arab Israelis (which I think he already has) and amongst Palestinians.
Could you imagine Odeh or Tibi condemning Hamas? Saying that that reality is that Israel is a Jewish state? Saying that Palestinian terrorist groups need to lay down their arms?
Hamas doesn’t want an accommodation with Israel. They want the destruction of Israel, and its replacement by an Islamist Palestinian state.
One can find that goal abhorrent — I certainly do — but it obviously isn’t a goal that can be achieved peacefully. This is like telling a revolutionary Marxist that he should help raise the minimum wage with a letter-writing campaign, a weird refusal to acknowledge someone’s actual ideology.
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He is a “house negro” in the words of Malcolm X so no surprise that he is in favor of not resisting in the face of endless oppression and land theft.
Asking them nicely?
Of course!
Why did no one think of this before!?!
you mean there’s arabs in israeli politics??? they aren’t excluded like it happens in actual apartheid states?
I’m glad he’s got a platform, but there are several problems:
He’s getting death threats
.
Some of the figures supporting the idea say it should be done ***after*** statehood.
Most of the chatter about it proposes the PA do it but they are corrupt as ever and not as peace-loving as Israel would like.
The feelings/ideology of the population will take a long time to change and while/if that happens – there’s crazy amount of weapon smuggling into Gaza and the WB as can be seen now, so disarming won’t be a “one and done” thing.
Biggest mench in Israeli politics
I know he’s an Israeli Arab, but Palestinians need a leader like him.
Ha! Give me a break
Mansour Abbas has been the Palestinian voice of reason for a long time. If only someone like him were negotiating for the PA.
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Mansour Abbas has been the biggest voice for reason and peace among the Palestinians for the last few years.
Mansour Abbas (Not to be confused with Mahmoud Abbas the terrorist dictator) might become the closest thing the Palestinians ever had to a peaceful Palestinian leader. If his popularity will grow of course.
If his party wasn’t an Islamist party, I would seriously consider voting for Mansour Abbas in the next election. He is truly a great man. He has done and said many things that are not popular in the greater Arab world, but he is doing everything he can to make Arab Israelis’ lives better (which none of the other Arab parties do, they just virtue signal about Palestinians without doing anything proactive about it).
This man is making me truly believe we might have a peaceful two state solution in my lifetime if he can garner enough support amongst Arab Israelis (which I think he already has) and amongst Palestinians.
Could you imagine Odeh or Tibi condemning Hamas? Saying that that reality is that Israel is a Jewish state? Saying that Palestinian terrorist groups need to lay down their arms?
Hamas doesn’t want an accommodation with Israel. They want the destruction of Israel, and its replacement by an Islamist Palestinian state.
One can find that goal abhorrent — I certainly do — but it obviously isn’t a goal that can be achieved peacefully. This is like telling a revolutionary Marxist that he should help raise the minimum wage with a letter-writing campaign, a weird refusal to acknowledge someone’s actual ideology.
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He is a “house negro” in the words of Malcolm X so no surprise that he is in favor of not resisting in the face of endless oppression and land theft.
Asking them nicely?
Of course!
Why did no one think of this before!?!
you mean there’s arabs in israeli politics??? they aren’t excluded like it happens in actual apartheid states?
I’m glad he’s got a platform, but there are several problems:
He’s getting death threats
.
Some of the figures supporting the idea say it should be done ***after*** statehood.
Most of the chatter about it proposes the PA do it but they are corrupt as ever and not as peace-loving as Israel would like.
The feelings/ideology of the population will take a long time to change and while/if that happens – there’s crazy amount of weapon smuggling into Gaza and the WB as can be seen now, so disarming won’t be a “one and done” thing.
Biggest mench in Israeli politics
I know he’s an Israeli Arab, but Palestinians need a leader like him.
Ha! Give me a break
Mansour Abbas has been the Palestinian voice of reason for a long time. If only someone like him were negotiating for the PA.
This man gets it