Mansour Abbas, chair of Islamist Ra’am party and member of the Lapid-Bennett government, admitted that the Islamist organization that he is a member of is affiliated with the radical Muslim Brotherhood movement.

“The Islamic Movement is a subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Abbas said in a recent interview to the Jordanian press.

“It was founded as a jihad movement. After it was made clear that the possibility in the present to hold weapons and wage a jihad war is not possible, the movement shifted to focus on civilian jihad… When we talk about lands, residence and destruction of homes, is that a civilian issue? On the contrary, it is a national issue which stands at the base of our struggle for our homeland.”

Abbas continued with this nationalist rhetoric, revealing that his actions, at least in part, were responsible for the domestic unrest within the Arab community in Israel during its confrontation with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

“Our patriotism is expressed in deeds, not slogans. Instead of slogans we’re sending thousands of people every day to the Al Aqsa Mosque via dozens of buses,” the Israeli lawmaker noted.

Source: Lawmaker Orit Struck