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12. The Arab Parties (Arab Block)

Author : Sunil K. Choudhary

Published in: The Changing Face of Parties and Party Systems

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

Proportional representation in Israel has ensured participation of the minorities, the Arabs, in the Knesset. The Arabs, constituting 22 per cent of the Israeli population, have become the real beneficiaries of the principle of proportional representation. However, the division of Arabs into different parties has weakened their parliamentary representation by depriving them a decisive say in the parliamentary politics of Israel. However, the increasing electoral threshold from 1 to 3.25 per cent brought about consolidation of the Arab votes as well as unity of the Arab parties, thereby significantly increasing their electoral share in the 2015 Knesset elections. The real challenge for the Arab parties in the parliamentary politics of Israel is how to continue with its united electoral fight democratically by supplementing the Arab interests with the Jewish interests simultaneously.

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Footnotes
1
Maki was a Communist party of Arabs. Since it fought formative Knesset elections as an ally of Mapai, it became part of the socialist block until 1965 when it transformed into Rakah initially and finally into Hadash in 1997.
 
2
After his expulsion from Mapam, Moshe Sneh’s the Left Socialist Party joined Maki in the Knesset elections in 1955.
 
3
The Lavon affair related to the controversial order of the Israeli Defence Minister Pinchas Lavon asking the IDF agents to carry out the sabotage activities against the Egyptians in 1954. The Egyptians caught these agents and killed some of them. The incident defamed Israel in international arena and seriously questioned its diplomatic stature. Pinchas Lavon was asked to resign notwithstanding his claim that the orders were being passed by the then IDF Chief.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Arab Parties (Arab Block)
Author
Sunil K. Choudhary
Copyright Year
2018
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
The Changing Face of Parties and Party Systems

Print ISBN: 978-981-10-5174-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-10-5175-3

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5175-3_12