The biggest question ahead of Israel’s Nov. 1 election is whether former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will return to power, aided by a bloc of far-right parties
but in recent efforts to appear more moderate, now saying he only felt this applied to Palestinians he considers traitors or terrorists.
“The reason why Ben-Gvir isn’t as radical as Kahane was is that the whole country has moved closer to him,” Magid says.Palestinians take part in a demonstration during the visit of the Right-wing politician Itamar Ben-Gvir to Al-Nabi Samuel village, north of Jerusalem, on Sept. 2.Israel’s Arab voters could prove to be key in Tuesday’s election. Variously called Israeli-Arabs and Palestinian citizens of Israel, they account for 20% of Israel’s population.
, are not permitted to serve in the military, and—until last year—had never had a party in a ruling coalition.“With such a historic divide among the Jewish parties, the Arabs have become the kingmakers,” says Thair Abu Ras, a PhD student in the department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland and Palestinian citizen of Israel, in an email to TIME.
An Israeli Arab voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Kafr Manda, 16 kilometres northwest of Nazareth, on March 23, 2021.Under the current government, Israel has continued with expanding Jewish settlement inside Palestinian territory, and demolishing Palestinian homes. Israel has also come under international scrutiny over the killing of Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian.
They also caution that aggressive moves by an Israeli government against Palestinians carries the risk of turmoil within its own borders. In 2021,actions by Israel cascaded into street fights and bloodletting. “The country is going to…lurch to the right, and I think what’s gonna end up happening is that you can also start to see Arab riots in Israel and you’re going to start to see the potential of a third intifada,” Magid says.
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