Abbas Has Already Broken the Door - Now Let Him Change the Club

Dr. Hossam Abu Bakr praises Mansour Abbas for breaking the political door and calls on him to change the admission criteria to the legitimacy club. He supports integrating Yoav Segalovich into an Arab framework, warns against a dichotomy between 'legitimate' Arabs and 'others', and emphasizes that pragmatism should not come at the expense of identity. Arab citizens are entitled to partnership by right, not by grace.

In an opinion column, Dr. Hossam Abu Bakr, CEO of Alfenar organization and lecturer at Ono Academic College, praises Mansour Abbas for the political courage that broke the door to integrating an Arab party into the coalition. He argues that Abbas changed a paradigm: from protest from the outside to influence from within, and from electoral power to political power. Abu Bakr supports the possibility of integrating Yoav Segalovich into an Arab political framework, seeing it as a norm-shattering step. However, he warns against a dangerous dichotomy between 'legitimate Arabs' and 'others', and calls on Abbas not to settle for the entry ticket but to change the admission criteria to the club. He emphasizes that pragmatism should not come at the expense of identity, and that Arab citizens are entitled to partnership by right, not by grace. The column calls for expanding Arab influence beyond budgets and enabling true partnership that respects different identities.