Arab Parties Extend A Hand To Try To Topple Netanyahu But Challenges Remain

HuffPost · AP · 2026-11-05 16:06 UTC

A veteran Palestinian lawmaker in Israel says his bloc is willing to break with decades of precedent and join forces with Jewish-led parties.

TAYIBE, Israel (AP) — A veteran Arab lawmaker in Israel says his bloc is willing to break with decades of precedent and join forces with Jewish-led parties in a shared bid to end Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long rule.

“We want to do things that we did not do in the past in order to remove this criminal government,” Ahmad Tibi, a senior member of the Arab Joint List, told The Associated Press.

But any such partnership could be politically fraught for both sides. For the Joint List, it would mean backing a government unlikely to end Israel’s wars or curb settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. For Netanyahu’s opponents, it would mean aligning with parties that not only criticize Israel’s policies, but reject its identity as a Jewish state.

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