00:00Still on the political developments in Israel, as talks on formation of the new government gathers steam,
00:06a major change in its policy towards Gaza may not follow.
00:10According to Senior Program Officer from Medeca Center, Riza Hamdan,
00:13the political paralysis does not mean Israel's military operations will stop.
00:19He said this is because the country's broader security doctrine remains largely the same across the main political blocs.
00:30Or the opposition bloc, all of them, despite, I mean, regardless of their political ideology,
00:37differences in their political ideology, both of these blocs share the same policy on Gaza,
00:44which is they will strive for, go for total destruction, total annihilation of Gaza.
00:52Despite their political differences, their political ideologies,
00:56these parties still share the same doctrine,
01:01which is, well, total annihilation and total destruction toward the error, the concern.
01:10So I don't see any change might happen because of the change in the government.
01:16On the record, victory achieved by the Arab-led parties, Rizal said,
01:21the real challenge lies in turning those parliamentary gains into a position of influence within the government.
01:27Well, yes, potentially, however, we need to distinguish between holding the balance of seat and being accepted as a partner
01:38in the government.
01:39Because for the record, yeah, there is a, this is the best performance in the election ever for the Arab
01:47-led party,
01:47gaining, I think, like, between 17 to 19 seats because in the last election,
01:54the Arab-led party only managed to get 10 seats in the Knesset.
01:59More or less, yeah, Arab-led party, I think, could support a coalition directly by backing it from the outside
02:09or influence the initial confidence through the, I think, like, abstention.
02:15However, difficulty is in the sense of political because important opposition leaders, yeah,
02:23have rejected governing arrangements that depend on the Arab party.
02:30In 2021, Ra'am became the first independent Arab party to join an Israeli governing coalition,
02:36supporting the government, led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid.
02:41However, that government lasted only about a year before the coalition lost its majority, which led to an election.
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