It’s hard not to feel some pity for Mansour Abbas, the unusual Israeli-Arab politician. Though he sits atop an Islamist political party, he has worked diligently to try to put daylight between himself and the Islamic authorities under whose wing he has long operated. He is also willing to work with right-wing parties, as he did in joining a coalition that also included Naftali Bennett in 2021 and which briefly displaced Benjamin Netanyahu from office. His pragmatism is aimed at giving Israeli

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