Extreme positions and ties to terrorists: the new faces of the Joint List

The article presents new candidates on the Joint List, focusing on alleged ties to terrorists and extreme anti-Israel positions. Among the new names: Bakr Awawda, who attended an event honoring terrorist Karim Younis; Hassan Nasasra, who published praise for terrorist Maher Younis; and Faten Ghattas, an ideological communist who calls Israel a "colonial enterprise." The article claims there is no substantive change in the party's positions.

The article on Channel 14 presents the new candidates on the Joint List, focusing on their alleged extreme positions and ties to terrorists. It opens with faction chairman Ahmad Tibi's statement that he will do everything to topple the right-wing government, presenting the list as a significant factor for the opposition bloc. It then details ties of veteran candidates like Tibi and Sami Abu Shahadeh with released terrorists. New candidate Bakr Awawda, placed fifth, participated in the liberation festival of Karim Younis, a terrorist who murdered an IDF soldier. Hassan Nasasra published praise for Maher Younis, Karim Younis's partner in the murder, though it is claimed he did not know he was eulogizing a terrorist. Awawda also published remarks about Fawzi Nimr, a terrorist responsible for murdering three Israelis, calling him a "fighter" and "hero of the Palestinian people." Another new candidate is Faten Ghattas, an ideological communist, who calls Israel a "colonial invention" and the US the "head of the snake." The article concludes that the new faces do not herald a substantive change in the party's positions, which include sympathy for terrorism and a sharp struggle against Zionism.