Shea Levin — text status

Ra'am chairman Mansour Abbas claimed on Tuesday that during a 2021 meeting at Balfour, Prime Minister Netanyahu told him that he and Hamas terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar "understood each other." The account of the closed-door conversation is Abbas's version alone. Abbas made the claim hours after Prime Minister Netanyahu attacked the Arab parties in his Knesset speech. He blamed the October 7th massacre on the prime minister's trust in Sinwar and said he will testify if a state commission of inquiry is formed. Likud denies any contact with Ra'am.