Every few years, shortly before a national election, the Knesset's Central Elections Committee is asked to disqualify all or some of the Arab political parties in the running, generally on the grounds that their ideologies threaten the Jewish nature of the state, which, along with denying the democratic nature of the state, is a cause for disqualification. The elections committee, whose makeup is representative...
If parliament has no Arabs
Assuming that a stable society is a shared interest, the participation of a minority in the democratic system is something all Israelis should desire.
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