It sucks to be Mansour Abbas these days
Netanyahu's campaigns – who himself shook hands with Arafat – attribute additional meaning to the act of closeness to the Arab opposite: it is a hugging that defiles the national camp. And this, in days…
Assessment
The piece argues that Netanyahu's own history of shaking hands with Arafat undercuts his current campaign attacks on Mansour Abbas. The real target is not Abbas himself but the symbolic contamination of the national camp through any gesture of closeness to an Arab politician. In a political climate obsessed with loyalty tests, this framing turns a tactical alliance into an unforgivable betrayal.