Did the Israeli Arab parties commit election fraud?
See this (it’s a translation from the Hebrew, so attempts to embed it end up with a Hebrew version). Here’s what it says in English [my emphasis]:
Likud: The elections in the State of Israel were stolen by Arab parties that support terrorism and the elimination of the Jewish state through serious criminal offenses of bribery, threats, violence, forgeries, and the use of prohibited software to mobilize voters.
The Likud party is transferring to the police, the Shin Bet, and the Central Elections Committee hundreds of testimonies and pieces of evidence regarding election theft in many Arab polling stations—thousands of envelopes with cash and Ra’am slips, threats and violence against polling station members, multiple voting behind the curtain, voting with double identities, discrepancies between the number of envelopes and the number of voters, the use of prohibited mobilization software, and more.
We demand from the police and the Shin Bet a thorough investigation into the election theft by the Arab parties and the full prosecution of the criminals.
We demand from the Central Elections Committee an immediate response to investigate these criminal offenses that have severely damaged the integrity of the elections in Israel and the election results.
This is a serious blow to Israeli democracy and the voting rights of Israeli citizens. The law enforcement agencies must act with an iron fist and in an immediate manner.
There are interesting comments at the link, mostly of the “loser, loser!” variety. And yet Netanyahu didn’t actually lose, although he lost seats compared to his majority win in the 2022 election. That majority victory, however, was a rare event in recent Israeli elections; a stalemate has been much more common. His party is the leading party now and his coalition the leading bloc and therefore may be the most likely to be able to form some sort of coalition government.
Twenty percent of Israeli citizens are Arabs, something the Israel-haters ignore except when they want to say that Israeli Arabs are persecuted. But they vote and have Knesset representation. In the recent election the Arab parties did much better than expected, and the question is why.
If there’s evidence of fraud, it needs to be heard. Of course, the left says it’s racist to even consider the question.
You are saying Arabs are free in Israel but when they vote for Arab lists it is fraud? Israel has many problems but its democracy is remarkable. Accept the result.
David Clayton:
You apparently either didn’t read the post or didn’t understand it. Do you know what a quotation is? Do you know what the question mark is for in the title? Do you know what the word “if” means in the first sentence of the last paragraph?
You are saying…
That’s a bold move, when dealing with an armed opponent.
It couldn’t be racist; tribal, maybe, but not racist.
Most of the Arab parties are analogous to the American DSA: They are committed to disestablishing their country’s government and making it into a different entity.