MK Mansour Abbas, chairman of Ra'am, which represents the 'Islamic Movement-Southern Faction' in the Knesset, says that there is a need to formulate an Arab strategy that will lead to the replacement of the right-wing government in the upcoming elections.
At a meeting in the town of Hura in the Negev, which dealt with the struggle to thwart the government's plan to regulate Bedouin settlement in the Negev ("Shikli Plan"), Abbas said that the current government should be replaced with a new government, and that the Arab public should have an influence on the election results.
Abbas called the government "racist and fascist," and explained that a government that replaces it with the help of the Arab voice would restore the policy of recognizing the "unrecognized villages" in the Negev and the north.
According to him, the problem of unrecognized villages also exists in the north - and they include about 40 settlement points.