Speaking on Radio 103FM this morning, MK Mansour Abbas, the head of the Arab Raam party, said that the time when an Arab party would sit in a coalition government was still a long way off.
"I want to bring about achievements for the Arab sector, achievements that we have not succeeded in bringing about until now," he said. "I want to see Arabs serving as directors and deputy directors in the public sector. But I consider myself a pragmatist, and also a realist. Neither the right wing nor the center-left parties are ready to bring us into a coalition."
Abbas added that he had little confidence in unseating Netanyahu in the near future. "We recommended Gantz twice for the premiership - and we ended up with a Netanyahu government," he noted. "There is no real alternative to him right now."