

Obstacles to United Jewish-Arab Left

Almost 30 percent of Arab voters gave their votes to Zionist parties? A shocking fact!
From a practical perspective, how exactly will Meretz people, who promote the rights of the gay community, sit together with people of the Islamic movement, whose representative in the previous Knesset was married to two women?
Could you live in peace with people from Hadash, some of whom declare their support for Bashar al Assad?
In every Arab party, from Hadash to Balad, there are Knesset members who meet with the families of terrorists. How will you be able to cooperate with such an agenda?
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Meretz at this point seems to be facing two options: a merger with Hadash or Hadash-Ta’al and a merger with Labor. I would recommend the latter option because historically and culturally Meretz has much more in common with another Zionist party than with an anti-Zionist Arab party. Once Meretz and Labor have successfully merged into a new joint party that can hopefully arrest the slide of the Zionist Left into irrelevance, they can begin actively cooperating with the more moderate Arab parties such as Hadash on an agenda of advancing equal rights for Israel’s Palestinian citizens and for forging a common force for peace. Because the political pressures in the Arab sector and the Jewish sector are quite different operating a common party would be quite difficult.