Mansour Abbas, a Muslim Arab political chief who can be an Israeli citizen, issued a message Friday to the assorted Palestinian factions, urging them to desert violence and to work collectively to push for a Palestinian state via political means.
Abbas, 49, leads the United Arab Record (Ra’am) celebration within the Knesset, and was a part of the earlier Israeli authorities that served from 2021 via 2022.
In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on The State of affairs Room, Abbas stated that Hamas had finished nice injury to the Palestinian trigger, and steered a unique, non-violent path ahead:
Any motion that’s taken towards harmless individuals — towards ladies, youngsters, aged — is inhumane, and it goes towards the values of Islam as properly. And we categorically condemn this. This … can’t be justified, as a result of it goes towards all human values and spiritual values as properly.
However on the identical time, after all, we can not overlook that there’s a political battle that’s taking place. However the actions that the armed teams have determined to take, and to make use of violence as a way to obtain their means, wanting on the previous, have all the time failed. And the sufferer of each a kind of militant makes an attempt have been the Palestinian individuals, who had been those who paid the value. On this present battle, we take a look at the variety of individuals killed, we’re speaking about over 15,000 Palestinians who misplaced their lives on this final warfare.
And as a way to transfer ahead, the Palestinian militant teams must take down their arms. They should work hand-in-hand with the Palestinian Authority as a way to understand a nationwide motion that can aspire for a state of Palestine with a peace decision alongside with the state of Israel.
The Instances of Israel famous that Abbas’s assertion to CNN made him “the primary Arab celebration chief in Israel’s historical past to publicly name on the armed Palestinian factions to demilitarize and work with the Palestinian Authority as a way to set up a Palestinian state via non-violent means.”
In 2022, Abbas emphatically rejected claims that Israel is an “apartheid” state, saying that Jews and Arabs in Israel had been making an attempt to create “miracles” by working collectively.
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