Along Lee Green, the party leader says: “The ‘A Place for All of Us — Leklina Place’ party is committed to changing the government, so we will not burn votes for the camp and will not endanger this possibility in any way. If, despite our efforts, we realize that there is no chance that we will connect with another force, or that we will pass the electoral threshold on our own, we simply won’t run all the way. This is a fundamental and principled commitment, and now also a public one, that is agreed upon by the party’s leadership and its candidates.
And here’s what our party has to offer. Because after decades in which the only side that offered something to the public was the right side of the political map, now there is a left-wing party that is on the field with a cohesive vision and a commitment to persuade and harness the two societies, the Arab and the Jewish.
The right-wing government in our history has brought disaster in the Gaza Strip and the State of Israel, reversing the bloody price of the “security zone” in Lebanon and dragging it into rounds with Iran.
The Israeli right understood after October 7 that we had reached a historic juncture of decisiveness, and this is indeed what it proposes: to decide through expulsion, occupation, extermination and ethnic cleansing. But the politicians in the opposing camp? They propose to go back to October 6, to the comfort of silence about the occupation, to ignore the conflict, and to incitement against the Arabs. This is what will lead to next October 7.
A completely different direction is needed, and we also need the courage to propose it. In the first elections after October 7, if the discourse is only “Yes Bibi” or “No Bibi,” we have already lost. Our discourse and our vision should be much bigger than that.
First of all, we propose an egalitarian Jewish-Arab partnership that has room for both women and men, young and old. Not a Jewish party (with a symbolic Arab representative), not an Arab party (with a symbolic Jewish representative), but a joint Arab-Jewish party. A party that grows out of shared workplaces, shared campuses, shared cities, and succeeds in instilling hope among young men and women who have given up on politics and have given up voting in elections.
And we are proposing Israeli-Palestinian peace. Yes, simply. A peace that would end the occupation and establish an independent Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel. Not “civil separation under security control,” or “We are here, and they are there.” Not a rejection of the question because “this is not the time.” Not support for wars alongside a demand for an “end political leg.”
And we are demanding that our security in the streets be truly improved, which is at a low that has not been seen in years. Since the beginning of 2026, more than 130 Arab citizens have been murdered in Israel, and the number could rise further.
In Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and other places throughout the country, thugs on behalf of the government are setting up militias, attacking demonstrations, making “home visits” to leftists (I got two of them). And the police themselves became frighteningly violent.
In order to fix this, we need to remove Itamar Ben-Gvir, shake up the Israel Police, rebuild trust in it, and also understand that without investment in welfare and education, we ourselves are sending teenagers to the jaws of the criminal organizations.
This is not a struggle of a particular society, but of all of us.
We also demand equality, social and distributive justice. For decades, all governments have been privatizing entire areas in order to eliminate public services. The time has come for us to talk about a different order of priorities in the Knesset elections as well. Instead of burning hundreds of billions of shekels on wars and settlements, investing the money in the people who live in the State of Israel.
We must start talking about the great solutions we need in light of the deep crisis in which we find ourselves. Not only to change the government, but also to change its path. For too many years, politicians have been asking us to lower expectations, offering too little and asking us to focus on short-term political tactics and strategically voting for opinions that are not our own.
If we continue to make do with it, we may wake up in a few years and realize that it’s too late, because we’ve forgotten how to fix it. We can’t agree that this will happen.
With courage, a willingness to collaborate and great responsibility for this place, we came to offer something completely new.”
Is it really something completely new? What is new in the declarations of a Palestinian state about 20% of Palestine? Such a “state” would be like the fictitious Bentosidant states in South Africa, the racist white government deprived it of all services to the blacks, and the role of these so-called countries was to store the blacks who worked for the whites during the day.
Behind this position is another position, which is that there is not a single Palestinian people, including the refugees, that Israel has expelled and continues to expel from, while every Jew in the world can be a citizen of Israel. Those who want Jewish-Arab unity and the establishment of an egalitarian framework must fight for a constituent assembly that includes representatives of the refugees.
Second, the wording suggests that any Zionist government that removes Itamar Ben-Gvir, shakes up the Israel Police, rebuilds trust in it, will be welcome. As if the police were not a violent and oppressive force by themselves.
The only way to equality between Jews and Palestinians is a democratic and socialist Palestinian state from the sea to the river.
This is not the first time such a party existed and failed in Israel. Maj. Gen. Matti Peled, disillusioned with the Alignment, joined the short-lived Target Movement, which was founded by many Ratz activists, members of Luba Eliav, who had previously retired from the Alignment, and the “Circle for Clarifying Social and State Problems” that he headed (a circle that included among its members Yigal Eilam, Dan Jacobson, Yoram Perry, Yohanan Peres, David Shaham, Zvi Kassa and other personalities[49]), and retiring activists from Change headed by Prof. Yonatan Shapira. On the basis of “a vision of a political peace arrangement, and not the holding of the territories as a national goal, a struggle to eliminate the socio-ethnic gap, the introduction of a proper regime based on a written constitution, the building of a civilized economy that repays each person according to his or her contribution, and the democratization of political life in Israel.” Upon joining, Peled said that he will serve as an alternative to other partners in the ruling coalitions such as the National Religious Party and the Independent Liberals when the Alignment forms a new government, and he also expressed hope that Haad will be joined by other bodies such as the Moked Party, the Black Panthers, Shinui, and perhaps also independent liberals and Mapam. It lasted less than a year.
However, it is possible to have common actions, for example, to defend the Palestinians from the settlers.