We will not sit with them, unequivocally. I do not see anything that connects us to them or allows us to be in the same government with them

  -- Labor (Hamachane Hatzioni) Chairman Avi Gabbay about the possibility of forming a government in the future with the Arab party

Gabbay is under fire for rejecting the Arabs outright, but the truth is no government-forming party has ever invited the Arab parties to join a coalition, so Gabbay is only expressing what every government, Labor-led included, has always done...