Israel Election results: “Arab” parties take stock after failure in polls
- Jack Khoury جاك خوري
For the first time in history, the United Arab List will be the biggest Arab faction in the Knesset, leaving the rest of the Joint List to do some soul-searching following the exit polls on Tuesday
Ayman Odeh and other Joint List lawmakers following ...
Israel election results: Who was Meir Kahane, and why is his racist legacy relevant again
- David B. Green דוד ב. גרין
Brooklyn-born Meir Kahane was banned from Israeli politics in 1988, but the spirit of his anti-Arab Kach party lives on in an extremist alliance that just won six Knesset seats
Merchandise on sale in 2016 bearing the face of Rabbi Meir Kahane ...
Pointers from the Israeli elections
- Abdelbari Atwan عبد الباري عطوان
Whether Netanyahu survives or not, the Arabs emerged as the biggest losers
NORMALIZATION: "Arabs for sale", by Ahmed Khalil
It may be too early to tell what will follow from Israel’s latest general elections and how its political ...
Israel election results: Mansour Abbas, don’t believe Netanyahu
- Haaretz הָאָרֶץ هاآرتس
When it became known that United Arab List had crossed the electoral threshold and could win as many as five seats, party leader MK Mansour Abbas reiterated his campaign message: His party “is not pledged to any bloc or any candidate. We’ ...
Israel election results: is it Kahanist Ben-Gvir that bothers you?
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
A list that in Europe would have been classified straight away as neo-Nazi has just made it into the Knesset. There is no other way to describe the Religious Zionism party. Xenophobia, homophobia and nationalism, combined with religious fundamentalism ...
Five lessons from Israel’s election
- Jonathan Cook جونثان كوك
The final result from Israel’s general election may not be known for another day or two until all the votes have been tallied. But with 90 percent counted already, a clear picture has emerged.
Benjamin Netanyahu has once again shown he is ...
Yes, really: Hamas and the PA want to see Netanyahu win
- Muhammad Shehada محمد شحادة Мухаммад Шхада
As we inch closer to Israel’s fourth election in two years, there’s understandable fatigue and indifference overwhelming Israelis. It’s overwhelming Palestinians, too: unfortunately, we see no glimmer of hope in most of the competing ...
Israel's High Court; the champion of human rights
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Israel’s beacon of justice shone again: the High Court justices opened Israel’s skies, and the people of Israel went from slavery to freedom on the eve of Passover. Parents were united with children, grandchildren with their grandparents ...
The Israeli and Palestinian elections offend democracy – each in their own way
- Salem Barahmeh سالم براهمة
Polls taking place months apart simply highlight the two-tier system that denies Palestinians any real voice or freedom
For the first time in decades, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel will hold legislative elections a few months apart. ...
‘Finished with the bluffing’: Jewish National Fund goes public with its aid to settlers
- Jonathan Cook جونثان كوك
For decades, Jews around the world have cherished the Jewish National Fund’s supposedly “charitable” work buying and managing land in Israel. Generations of Jewish children have been encouraged to drop pennies into its iconic blue collection ...
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