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Home Special Coverage 2021 Election Election Insight

Likud-Arab cooperation might be the start of a beautiful friendship

The Arab leadership is promoting dialogue with the Right. It turns out that if Arab countries can seek peace with Israel regardless of the Palestinian cause, then so can Arab Israelis.

by  Uri Cohen
Published on  01-07-2021 11:23
Last modified: 01-07-2021 11:28
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There's suspense in the air as one of the biggest surprises of the upcoming election might be the Arab sector's voting pattern.

Several Arab leaders, who until recently saw the Likud as the most substantial threat to their existence, are now publicly calling for cooperation.

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It turns out that if Arab countries can seek peace with Israel regardless of the Palestinian cause, then so can Arab Israelis. The Arab leadership is done boycotting Likud and has opened a new dialogue with the Right that focuses, among other things, on increasing budgets for the Arab sector.

This is politics at its best. Similar processes are happening in the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and Sudan, whose capital Khartoum had previously hosted the Arab summit that declared "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it..."

The starting point of the rapprochement between the Likud and Arab Israelis is the recognition of the ideological disintegration of the Left.

We are all witnessing how the Left is falling apart with its small parties competing with each other and leaders who deemed themselves worthy of becoming prime minister.

The most ridiculous of them is Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai, who announced that he will remain in his mayoral office if he does not receive a senior cabinet position in the next election.

If Huldai fails in his quest for a senior cabinet position, then he has no intention of sitting on the backbenches of the Opposition alongside Joint Arab List MKs Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi.

In other words, who can you strike a deal with to promote the Arab sector? The Left or the Right?

A great sociological drama has taken place in Arab society in recent years, specifically in the primary, secondary, and higher education systems.

The unprecedented flourishing of higher education institutes has formed an educated professional Arab middle class whose focus is on state and private corporations.

Tibi, Odeh, and Balad's leaders are trying to preserve the old ways, to focus on progress without cooperating with most of the Jewish public. They are obstacles in the normalization process.

The Left is eager to hear the Arab representatives speak in praise of the martyrs who murdered Jews and announce loud and clear that there will never be cooperation until the Palestinian cause is resolved.

If so, Israeli Arabs will continue to avoid the Right in their political game and remain in a love-hate relationship with the Left.

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