Channel 14 News revealed on Tuesday evening that The Democrats party, having suffered significant political fallout within the Arab sector over its support for the disqualification of Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh, has aggressively stepped up courtship efforts and recently finalized political understandings with an Arab faction polling below the electoral threshold: the Arab National Party, headed by Mohammed Kanaan.
1+However, the arrangement exposes a profound moral compromise by The Democrats. Golan and his party leadership chose to consciously ignore the documented record of Mr. Kanaan as an ardent Arab nationalist and a serial supporter of convicted Arab-Israeli terrorists.
Kanaan, now embraced as a political partner by The Democrats, personally attended the celebratory welcome reception for terrorist Bakr Abu Rabie, who served a 20-year sentence in an Israeli prison for attempting to murder Jewish youths in Jaffa. He also publicly backed Hussam Kana’ana, who was convicted of aiding the enemy. Furthermore, roughly three years ago, Golan’s new partner paid public homage to Karim Younis and Maher Younis, the two convicted terrorists who murdered IDF soldier Corporal Avraham Bromberg. Incredibly, an individual with a track record of celebrating convicted terrorists has been welcomed with honors by the Democrats’ leadership.
1+Add to this Kanaan’s diplomatic escapades: as a serving Member of Knesset, he traveled to Syria alongside fugitive former lawmaker Azmi Bishara, then became an outspoken supporter of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. None of these facts, it appears, have deterred the Democrats or Yair Golan in their pursuit of electoral gain.