SECOND TAKE
THE JERUSALEM POST: Israeli reconciliation cabinet misses mark
Jews and Arabs, religious and secular, left and right must find a way to unite and work to solve nation’s problems
During campaigning for elections in April 2019, September 2019 and March 2020 it seemed all red lines were crossed, and lying in public was no longer taboo. We also witnessed racism at its worst.
One candidate who considered working with the Joint List (https://www.jpost.com/opinion/can-arab-parties-serve-in-a-center-left-zionist-coalition-624566) — the only representative of the Arab minority in the Knesset — was immediately accused of treason. Another candidate wondered in a radio interview if one of his competitors, of Russian origin, could speak Hebrew. He later said immigrants from the former Soviet Union “do not want to be Jewish”...
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