The Democrats chairman Yair Golan on Tuesday urged fellow Zionist opposition party leaders to again partner with Ra’am and “stop playing along” with the demonization of the Arab Islamist faction.

“If we must rely on the votes of the Ra’am party to topple this failed government of disaster — the most dangerous to Israel’s security — then Ra’am is a worthy partner,” said Golan, the head of the left-wing party, in a video statement.

He also said publicly declaring Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas a “legitimate partner” would be “the appropriate Zionist response” to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said earlier Tuesday that Ra’am’s inclusion in the last government was “a thousand times worse” than the current government’s failure to prevent the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023.

“The murderous Hamas organization acts out of blind hatred of Jews, and Smotrich, on the other hand, prefers to sacrifice Israel’s security for the sole purpose of not cooperating with Arab society and its representatives,” Golan said.

Accusing Smotrich of forming an “extremists’ pact” with Hamas, Golan said the far-right minister “and his partners in the government were willing to sacrifice” the victims of the onslaught........

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