AHC/WI Arab Israeli Prime Minister

With a PoD no earlier than 1950, how do you get an Israeli רֹאשׁ הַמֶּמְשָׁלָה‎, (Rosh HaMemshala)/رئيس الحكومة‎‎, (Ra'īs al-Ḥukūma) that is a self identified Arab and practicing at least on a show-up-to-the-mosque-on-Eid-level Muslim by 2000 (C. E.). Only other precondition is that the Law of Return remains on the books.

75% credit if the PM is a Christian.

+75% for Defense or Foreign Ministers.

+50% credit for post 1967 POD.
 
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If future analysis/future history is allowed for this AHC, we can have Israel eventually annex the West Bank--thus increasing Arab political power to the point that they would eventually be able to elect one of their own as Israel's Prime Minister.
 
If future analysis/future history is allowed for this AHC, we can have Israel eventually annex the West Bank--thus increasing Arab political power to the point that they would eventually be able to elect one of their own as Israel's Prime Minister.
Sorry, 'By 2000 (C. E.)' is not negotiable.

But any POD between 1999 and 1950 that does not involve Abolition Of The Zionist State(tm)* will work. And discussion of the ramifications interest me.

(*: For values of 'Zionist' that boil down to 'Any Jew that makes it here gets citizenship'. I never did buy the Zero Sum Concept that Non-Jews must be screwed over if that alone stands)
 
This could only happen through coalition of the Israeli Arab community and the Jewish left, and then only with unprecedented Arab voter turnout.

POD: 1980 Jerusalem Law is passed, but included the word "annexation" and so Israel (il)legally annexed all of Jerusalem. Consequently, the Israeli Arab community decide to fully engage with the State, especially the Left, to pursue a binational coinfederation solution as an alternative to an independent Palestine without Jerusalem; and, the Israeli Jewish left becomes so disgusted with Begin's Revisionist government that they're willing to coalition with the Arabs after the next election.
 
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This could only happen through coalition of the Israeli Arab community and the Jewish left, and then only with unprecedented Arab voter turnout.

POD: 1980 Jerusalem Law is passed, but included the word "annexation" and so Israel (il)legally annexed all of Jerusalem. Consequently, the Israeli Arab community decide to fully engage with the State, especially the Left, to pursue a binational coinfederation solution as an alternative to an independent Palestine without Jerusalem; and, the Israeli Jewish left becomes so disgusted with Begin's Revisionist government that they're willing to coalition with the Arabs after the next election.
The timing of this is quite consequential for the First Intifada. If such a coalition is even remotely functional then both the "We have to keep the Arabs down or they will Kill Us All" and "We can only live as free people if we drive off or kill the Jews" schools of thought are fundamentally challenged.

Mind you, it may make the initial political violence worse even as the popular support for various Bitter Enders drops (Kach will freak, as will the PLO).
 
The timing of this is quite consequential for the First Intifada. If such a coalition is even remotely functional then both the "We have to keep the Arabs down or they will Kill Us All" and "We can only live as free people if we drive off or kill the Jews" schools of thought are fundamentally challenged.

Mind you, it may make the initial political violence worse even as the popular support for various Bitter Enders drops (Kach will freak, as will the PLO).

Still, interesting times.
 
The best path to the PM's office in Israel is through the military. So get a truly brilliant Bedouin Arab officer who climbs the ranks, argues for Arab rights within Israel while declaring his love for Israel, becomes a general, eventually becomes Chief of the Army, and you can probably figure out the rest.
 
The timing of this is quite consequential for the First Intifada. If such a coalition is even remotely functional then both the "We have to keep the Arabs down or they will Kill Us All" and "We can only live as free people if we drive off or kill the Jews" schools of thought are fundamentally challenged.

Mind you, it may make the initial political violence worse even as the popular support for various Bitter Enders drops (Kach will freak, as will the PLO).

True, but that could cause the moderate and undecided folk to realize the extreme schools of thought as both sucking hard and then coming down on both of them to end this madness.

Also, he could be an Arab Jew. As in someone who is culturally Arabic and such, but does practice Judiaism.
 
True, but that could cause the moderate and undecided folk to realize the extreme schools of thought as both sucking hard and then coming down on both of them to end this madness.
Yup. That is why I said initial.

Also, he could be an Arab Jew. As in someone who is culturally Arabic and such, but does practice Judiaism.
Oddly enough, while Jews originating in MENA are by some counts an Israeli plurality, there has only been one President that can be described thus (two if you count Persian-born Katsav) and no PMs.
 
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