On the Difference Between Realists and Delusionists
An opinion article criticizing Mansour Abbas's political approach, accusing him of denying the reality of occupation and fascism, replacing the existential struggle with budgetary issues, and producing an illusion that substitutes for hope and solutions.
An opinion article criticizes the approach of Mansour Abbas and his party 'The United Arab List' in politics, accusing him of denying reality and producing an illusion that substitutes for hope and solutions. The article describes the approach as ignoring the genocide and the ongoing uprooting, displacement, and demolition, and denying racism, incitement, and the persecution of the Palestinian people. The writer sees the Israeli system as fascist and colonial, and that the conflict is existential in its essence, but Abbas portrays it as merely a misunderstanding that he will clarify in a television interview. The article criticizes Abbas's attempt to trade the national and existential for the daily and current, even if it seems disconnected from reality.