Sep 1 Joint List
Hadash and three Arab parties Ra’am, Ta’al, and Balad are negotiating to reestablish the Joint List bloc ahead for the next elections. “The atmosphere during the meeting on Sunday was really good,” MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash-Ta’al) told The Jerusalem Post. During the meeting, Hadash-Ta’al presented a “road map toward the Joint List” who included a detailed three-phase process for the reestablishing the list.
Hadash MK Aida Touma-Sliman during a demonstration against war and occupation held in Nazareth, August 2024 (Photo: Al Ittihad)
The Joint List began to break apart ahead of the 2021 elections after Islamist Ra’am broke away. In a dramatic last-minute split in 2022, Balad left the two remaining factions and ran on a separate list and failed. The three main points of the road map presented by Hadash-Ta’al were: agreeing on the objectives the Joint List aims to achieve; formulating the character of the list and agreeing on a political program that will serve the objectives; and setting a timetable and mechanisms for reestablishing and managing the list.
“Being in a Joint List is not going to make all of us suddenly agree or erase all the differences among us,” Touma-Sliman added. “On the contrary, we will respect each other’s differences, but we believe that there is almost no real big issue or difference in ideas between the different parties, especially when the dangers are so great.”
Regarding the war in Gaza, Touma-Sliman said she hoped a hostage-ceasefire deal would be reached. “A war is going on, a bloody war, when a genocide is happening,” she said. “We think that there should be a political agreement to end the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and this we all agree on.” According to the chair of the Hadash-Ta’al parliamentary bloc, MK Ayman Odeh, “Netanyahu’s lies are drenched in blood. His only vision is endless war, occupation, and apartheid. This government openly claims all the land from the river to the sea, erasing Palestinians, stealing their future, and calling it ‘peace’,” wrote Sunday evening.
