Peloni: Will there be a second go at the govt of spare parts? I doubt it, but time will tell.
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Thirty-fourth government of Israel. PM Netanyahu at bottom, former PM Naftali Bennett on Right.. Photo by Avi Ohayon / GPO Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia
A major part of any leadership, which greedy, self-serving globalist politicians have forgotten (if they ever knew it at all), is to protect a country’s citizens. Israel has faced an existential threat since the day of its founding from the neighboring Muslim countries. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unwavering in his leadership. His focus on Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, both of which seek to annihilate the Jewish state, is prudent. “Netanyahu vows to block Iran’s nuclear ambitions, accuses opposition of courting Muslim Brotherhood,” by Keshet Neev, Jerusalem Post, January 5, 2026:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed Israel will not let Iran renew its ballistic-missile and nuclear-weapons program.
The opposition was trying to form a government with the Muslim Brotherhood, he said during a Knessetdebate. He also criticized former prime minister Naftali Bennett.
Regarding his recent trip to Florida to meet with US President Donald Trump, Netanyahu said they shared “a resolute position: We will not allow Iran to rebuild its ballistic-missile industry or renew the nuclear program that we severely damaged in Operation Rising Lion.”
“Our position is zero enrichment capability, the removal of all enriched uranium from Iran, and continuous oversight of nuclear facilities,” he said.
In response to the ongoing protests by the Iranian people against the regime, Netanyahu said: “We may be standing at a decisive moment in which the Iranian people will take their fate into their own hands.”
Bennett and the government that led in 2021-2022 was the first governing coalition to ever sit with an Arab party, he said.
“The Bennett government removed enforcement over what is happening in the Negev and accepted [Ra’am (United Arab List) chairman] Mansour Abbas’s demand,” he added.
Netanyahu accused the opposition of seeking to form a government with the Muslim Brotherhood.
“Do not speak in the name of the Zionist majority,” he said. “You are the ones who relied on and seek to rely on the Muslim Brotherhood. You are the radical minority…
It is obvious why Iran must not be allowed to to rebuild its ballistic missile industry or renew its nuclear program. But Netanyahu also criticizes former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, whose government was the “first governing coalition to sit with an Arab party,” Netanyahu said. Netanyahu went on to accuse the opposition of “seeking to form a government with the Muslim Brotherhood,” as he referenced Bennett’s acceptance of Ra’am and its chairman, Mansour Abbas.
Netanyahu has a legitimate concern: the Muslim Arab party Ra’am has exhibited contradictory loyalties, although it pulled out all stops to appear to be fair and conciliatory. Once part of the Arab Joint List, Ra’am — the political wing of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement — left the alliance in January 2021. In December 2021, Ra’am MK Mazen Ghnaim met with “Shiekh Raed Salah, who [had] recently completed a prison term for inciting terrorism…..Salah is the leader of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement which has been outlawed by the Israeli government since 2015.” Ghnaim visited Salah at his home in honor of his release from prison.
Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas, a day after Ghnaim’s meeting with Raed Salah, declared that Arabs “should move past contesting Israel’s Jewish identity,” sparking outrage from the head of the Joint List, Ayman Odeh. Those who were naive assumed good intentions on Abbas’ part. However, this is where his contradiction (or deception) was evident: Abbas also stated that “the State of Israel, with its identity, was established inside the Palestinian homeland.” And he went no further to clarify what he actually means by accepting Israel’s “Jewish identity.” This is necessary in part because a significant number of Quranic verses are crystal clear about Jewish identity, but not in a flattering sense.
Islamic antisemitism is rooted in hatred of Jewish identity. Abbas was not clear on his meaning. So although Ra’am says that it supports a two-state solution, which is irremediably flawed but would involve Arab Muslim acceptance of the existence of a Jewish state, the Charter that guides the party says that “there can be no allegiance” to Israel, and the party also deems Zionism a “racist, occupying project.” Ra’am also supports “the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital,” with an end of the so-called “occupation and dismantling of the settlements. It also seeks the release of Palestinian prisoners and the right of return of Palestinian refugees.”
According to Dr. Yechiel Shabiy at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies of Bar-Ilan University: “Ra’am is part of the Muslim Brotherhood. … Their principal beliefs are identical to those of the Muslim Brotherhood movement.”
One of the biggest mistakes was having a questionable Arab party in Knesset in the first place.
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