MK Ebtisam Maraana excitedly announced yesterday (Wednesday) the establishment of the first shelter for young Arabs from the LGBT community - but it seems that the project will not be implemented - precisely on the part of the coalition.
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The Labor Party MK announced yesterday that, with the support of Social Welfare Minister Meir Cohen, "an emergency residential and shelter center will be established in Israel for minors, young men and women from the Arab LGBT community, who were forced to leave their homes.".
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But MK Walid Taha of Ra'am, who was surprised to hear the news and didn't really like it, attacked in a post he published in Arabic on his Facebook account, writing: "Ibtisam of Ra'ana, you sleep standing up and are really dreaming. No shelter will be established to encourage and support same-sex married people from our Arab society. Period. People in our Arab society, Ibtisam, guard their religion and morals and do not accept that a man marries a man and a woman marries a woman.".
According to a report by Muhammad Majdallah on Channel 12, senior officials in the IDF clarified: "We will not allow the construction of the shelter and will exert all possible pressure on the relevant parties to torpedo it.".
MK Mara'ana attacked MK Taha and tweeted on her Twitter account in Hebrew: "MK Walid Taha from RAAM, thinks that all of Arab society is Walid. In a dark and conservative status, he attacks the initiative to establish an emergency shelter for the Arab LGBT community. So, Ustaz Walid, Arab society, not just Walid, is not dark and does not exclude those who are different, and I am here like a bone in the throat of LGBTphobia and racism. Good morning.".
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Channel 12 noted that the LGBT issue is sensitive for Ra'am. Its coalition partners know this, and therefore Yair Lapid reached agreements with Mansour Abbas, under which if an LGBT-related initiative interferes with Ra'am, party members and Lapid will handle the issue quietly and try to reach an agreement, with the aim of not publicly offending the gay community and the center-left's voters.
However, the establishment of the shelter caught the members of RAAM off guard, and instead of turning to Lapid as agreed, Taha simply "couldn't resist.".
