Israeli Arabs are citizens and elected officials with equal rights

Amnon Strashnov calls for integrating Israeli Arabs into the leadership, criticizes Netanyahu's speech in the Knesset, and cites a report stating that the number of Israeli Arabs who carried out attacks in the last decade was small.

Amnon Strashnov argues that the time has come to make peace with Israeli Arabs and integrate them into the country's leadership. He sharply criticizes Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the Knesset swearing-in ceremony, which he describes as inciting and divisive. Strashnov notes that Israeli Arabs constitute about twenty percent of the country's citizens, and that Ra'am and the Joint List won 19 seats in the Knesset, but both political blocs exclude them from their coalition calculations. He claims that Israeli Arabs have proven loyalty to the state, and cites data from a Knesset Research and Information Center report from May 5, 2025, according to which the number of Israeli Arabs who carried out attacks in the last decade was small – a few each year. Strashnov mentions that Mansour Abbas was a member of the Bennett-Lapid coalition and that the sky did not fall, and that after the October 7 massacre, Abbas strongly condemned the act. He calls for the inclusion of Arab parties in the leadership and argues that their exclusion is illegitimate.