January 23, 2015
KING MAKING:
Head of new united Arab party aims to prevent right-wing election win (LAZAR BERMAN AND TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF, January 23, 2015)
A day after Israel's Arab parties signed a historic unity deal to run on a single ticket in March's Knesset elections, the joint list presented its Knesset candidates on Friday and asserted it be would be the third largest faction in the Israeli parliament, "stronger than [Foreign Minister Avigdor] Liberman's" Yisrael Beytenu. Its leader said the goal was to prevent the Israeli right-wing from winning the coming elections. [...]"The right is called the 'nationalist camp,' [Isaac] Herzog and [Tzipi] Livni founded the 'Zionist Camp,' and we just founded the 'democratic camp," said Odeh at a press conference in Nazareth Friday."Arabs are a big percentage of the population, and we will put all our weight behind the effort to prevent the right from winning the elections.This will be our contribution." Some 23% of Israel's 8-million citizens are not Jewish.
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 23, 2015 3:48 PM
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