{"id":815,"date":"2021-06-04T17:24:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T17:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yeshuatami.com\/newsblog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2022-11-18T19:22:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T19:22:16","slug":"who-is-the-raam-party-and-how-did-they-join-the-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yeshuatami.com\/newsblog\/who-is-the-raam-party-and-how-did-they-join-the-new-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the Ra\u2019am Party \u2013 and How Did They Join The New Government?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ra\u2019am is the Islamist party in Israel. The charter that guides Ra\u2019am, the Islamist party representing the Arab citizens of Israel, demands the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees, saying \u201cthere can be no allegiance\u201d to Israel, and deems Zionism a \u201cracist, occupying project.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ra\u2019am is the political wing of the Southern Islamic Movement, an organization inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood. It was updated in 2018 and reviewed at a 2019 conference in Nazareth, which was reportedly chaired by Ra\u2019am leader Mansour Abbas. The Southern Islamic Movement\u2019s charter takes positions considered offensive to most Jewish Israelis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Charter states furthermore:<br><em>\u201cThe State of Israel was born of the racist, occupying Zionist project; iniquitous Western and British imperialism; and the debasement and feebleness of the Arab and Islamic [nations].\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It calls for the so-called right of return for Palestinian refugees who left or were expelled in 1948 (in very small numbers.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such a move is widely seen as a red line by most Zionist Israelis, who view an influx of potentially millions of Palestinians to Israel as spelling the demographic end of the Jewish state. (Palestinian refugees are the only refugees in the world, who were not absorbed by the other countries through the years, and who consider their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren also refugees.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ra\u2019am embraces a two-state solution as a possible framework, declaring that a Palestinian state ought to be established \u201calongside Israel\u201d in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem. But it notes that a right of return for Palestinians must be included in that agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The charter also states: \u201cWe all (Arabs) are [united as] one hand until the occupation ends and a Palestinian state is established in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and in noble Jerusalem; when the expelled and displaced return to their homes and their homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Kingmaker in forming the new coalition, the Arabs used the principle in Islam called \u201cTkiya\u201d that allows the minority to outwardly pretend to be part of the majority when in a hostile environment but inwardly remain in opposition all the while awaiting the opportunity time to take advantage of the majority for their purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hence, Mansour Abbas has used this \u201cTkiya\u201d principle to join the Israeli Jewish coalition Government by taking advantage of Lapid and Bennett\u2019s &nbsp;great desire to replace Netanyahu as Prime Minister at any price. The New would-be Israeli \u201cgovernment-of- change\u201d government\u2019s commitment to this Islamist party could be Zionist\u2019s bankruptcy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ra\u2019am has unveiled its coalition agreement with Yesh Atid, making it the first time in decades that an Arab party has joined the Israeli government coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Show Me The Money<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the agreement, this Muslim Arab party in Israel demanded and received 30 billion shekels (about 9.25 billion dollars,) for a plan aiming to integrate the Arab sector and another 2.5 billion shekels (about 770 million dollars) for a plan to reduce crime in the Arab sector. In addition, 20 billion shekels (about 6 billion dollars) for a ten-year plan to improve infrastructure in the Arab sector, and 500 million shekels (about 150 million dollars) spending money for &#8220;supporting the local authorities.&#8221; The total amount is a little over 16 billion dollars. These are staggering amounts to grant a small party of 4 seats. Also, within a month and a half, three unrecognized (illegal) Bedouin &#8220;villages&#8221; will be recognized and become legal, and the rest (unknown number) within the next 9 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ra\u2019am is the Islamist party in Israel. The charter that guides Ra\u2019am, the Islamist party representing the Arab citizens of Israel, demands the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees, saying \u201cthere can be no allegiance\u201d to Israel, and deems Zionism a \u201cracist, occupying project.\u201d Ra\u2019am is the political wing of the Southern Islamic Movement, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[122,123,121],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics-in-israel","tag-arab-israelis","tag-government","tag-raam","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeshuatami.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeshuatami.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeshuatami.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeshuatami.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeshuatami.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yeshuatami.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/yeshuatami.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeshuatami.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeshuatami.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeshuatami.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}