MK Mansour Abbas, head of the United Arab List Party (known by its Hebrew acronym Ra’am), called on Palestinian terrorist factions to lay down their arms and join the Palestinian Authority in engaging Israel diplomatically to achieve a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"They need to work hand in hand with the Palestinian Authority in order to realize a national movement that would aspire for a State of Palestine with a peaceful resolution alongside with the State of Israel."
Cedar_Lion on December 2nd, 2023 at 16:53 UTC »
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.
BlueToadDude on December 2nd, 2023 at 14:23 UTC »
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.
Namer_HaKeseph on December 2nd, 2023 at 14:23 UTC »
Mansour Abbas has been the biggest voice for reason and peace among the Palestinians for the last few years.