Mohammad Yahya, Secretary-General of the “All Its Citizens” Party: We Support the Formation of a Broad Joint List that Includes Jewish-Arab Representation

In an interview with the Arab channel “Al-Hala Panorama”, Attorney Mohammad Yahya, Secretary-General of the All Its Citizens party, summarized his response to a question about the Joint List as follows:

Question: Attorney Mohammad Yahya, Secretary-General of the All Its Citizens Party — how do you, within your party framework, view what is happening around the Joint List?We’ve heard about two meetings so far, but things don’t seem to be moving forward.

Answer: We are all in the same boat. There are ongoing efforts to bring about a change in Netanyahu’s government and to increase Arab representation in the Knesset.In the All Its Citizens party, we emphasize and focus on the need for and the vision of Jewish-Arab partnership.

We had hoped that the Joint List would be re-established, and we in All Its Citizens would support such a list. At this stage, our own representation is not what matters; what matters is increasing Arab representation in the Knesset — based on Jewish-Arab partnership, which is the guarantee for genuine representation in the Knesset and possibly in the government in the future.

From this perspective, we can work toward forming a new list based on Jewish-Arab partnership, but it would be preferable for it to be within a renewed and expanded Joint List — one that also includes representatives from the Jewish community, in order to ensure strong and meaningful representation in the Knesset.