I hope every major paper in the world is prepping a profile on Mansour Abbas, soon to be the most powerful Arab politician in Israeli history, and the man as much as anyone who brought Netanyahu down. He definitely has a lot to celebrate today.
Because Israeli politics for so long has been reducible to the English-speaking Netanyahu, there's been less international coverage of the many other (non-English speaking) politicians and parties that comprise Israel's parliament. With this new coalition, that'll need to change.
Netanyahu increasingly centralized power in his office, holding multiple ministries for himself at once. But that not's how Israel's parliamentary democracy normally works, with its many small parties and divided power centers. A lot of different players are going to matter now.
Mansour Abbas, leader of the Arab Ra'am party, is now giving his first speech as presumptive member of an Israeli coalition. Historic. Follow along here:

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13 Jun
The Knesset votes for the speaker, then the new speaker holds the vote for the new government. One step away.
The members of the opposition government, in their first vote as a bloc, have successfully replaced the speaker of the Knesset. Next comes the vote to approve a new government.
The Israeli Knesset is now voting on the new government. If the vote succeeds, it will replace Netanyahu's coalition.
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13 Jun
Right now, right-wing Knesset members are heckling Bennett non-stop as he tries to give his maiden speech laying out the agenda of the new government. This is unlikely to impact the new government other than remind its members why they got together in the first place.
Watching an assortment of racists and populist demagogues act like spoiled children in parliament is an excellent illustration of precisely the sort of thing that the new government's component parties, despite their manifold differences, ran against.
Yair Lapid ditches long speech he prepared, and instead just apologizes to his 86-year-old mother for what she just witnessed from the opposition in the Knesset, and closes by saying that this is precisely why they need to be replaced.
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That's a mean thing to say and you should apologize to Yiar.
The world's most incompetent internet troll, an inspiring story in two parts:
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11 Jun
.@ryangrim here says that the Soviet Union "ended the Holocaust," which is both historically false and even if it were true, an incredible erasure of the Soviet Union's massive state-sponsored antisemitism of its own. They murdered Yiddish poets and threw Jews in gulags, folks.
It's amazing how people of all ideological stripes will happily rewrite Jewish history and erase Jewish suffering if it serves their political purposes. You really don't have to do this! You can argue for your worldview without instrumentalizing Jewish people. It's not hard!
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a nonaggression agreement that divided up Poland, forced my grandfather to flee his home, and directly led to the murder of his family. This sort of revisionism is sick and shameful. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E…
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10 Jun
Arab-Israeli normalization to stabilize the region was an Obama policy objective long before Trump ever entered politics! Obama raised the topic on his first trip to Saudi Arabia. Biden's just picking that up. This is why knowing history is helpful to properly reporting the news.
Obama hoped to leverage normalizing gestures by Saudi towards Israel to incentivize Israeli moves on the Palestinians. At the time, Saudi rejected the idea out of hand. Wonder if Biden is thinking of reviving the notion now that it's on more favorable terrain.
No, Arab-Israeli normalization was a longstanding bipartisan foreign policy objective. Obama didn't invent it, and neither did Trump.
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My latest: How social media forges false consensus and erodes our public discourse, on everything from American electoral politics to the coronavirus yair.substack.com/p/how-social-m…
"If you’re wondering why so many smart people have been wrong on so many big things in recent years—from Trump’s 2016 viability, to the origins and virulence of the coronavirus, to the strength of Biden’s 2020 campaign—understanding Twitter’s role is a big piece of the puzzle."
"Now everybody is on Twitter and Twitter is the consensus. It influences what you think and what you feel you can and can’t say. It becomes this mass socialization mechanism for journalists. That’s how you end up with all sorts of ill effects and misses." yair.substack.com/p/how-social-m…
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