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Israel Is Struggling to Reconcile It's Claim of Being a Democracy With The Reality Of Having Arab Political Parties
A follow-up on a previous post : First Israel tried to outright ban the "Arab parties" (read: the Palestinians), arguing that "outside" influence impacted the elections. This was eventually overturned by their Supreme Court . The backlash from the ban attempt led both the opposition party and the "Arab parties" to attack Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party. For what it's worth, Israeli Officials have more or less dismissed the Likud Party's claim and said that the election results will stand . I find it very, very rich that the world is now in an political mindscape where the losing party/faction is claiming electoral interference from outside forces. In the United States, it's Russia or China. "Muslims" are being blamed for the protests in France. The UK cites outsiders for the birth of groups like Palestine Action. And then there's South America... But if we're being honest, there's only a few countries/nations with...
