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Israeli Arab Party Leader Mansour Abbas: Arabs Should Move Past Contesting Israel's Jewish Identity
(Times of Israel) Aaron Boxerman - Mansour Abbas, head of the Islamic Ra'am party that is part of the Israeli government coalition, said Tuesday that Israel's status as a Jewish state could not be changed, advising the Arab community to follow his pragmatic approach rather than trying to challenge the country's identity. "Israel was born as a Jewish state. And that was the decision of the Jewish people, to establish a Jewish state. The question is not 'what is the identity of the state?' That's how the state was born, and so it will remain," he told a conference in Tel Aviv. We should not "give ourselves illusions. This is the reality. The question is not about the state's identity - but what the status of Arab citizens will be in it."