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Netanyahu Courts Arab Voters; Nazareth Mayor: We Support You!
Polls suggest Israeli Arab voters flocking to Likud, other “Zionist” parties ahead of March election
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Who woulda thought? Benjamin Netanyahu, the accused “racist,” is successfully attracting Arab votes for his Likud party ahead of Israel’s national election on March 23.
If all you do is listen to the mainstream media, you might’ve walked away with the impression that Bibi oversees an “apartheid” regime that Arabs want nothing more than to overthrow.
Because that is the prevailing perception, it was with some mockery that the media reported on Netanyahu’s campaign to court Arab voters, in particular his visit on Wednesday to Nazareth.
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Jan. 15, 2021
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech on Wednesday in Nazareth was seen as an act of defiance in the Arab city before he even opened his mouth. His very presence in the capital of Israeli Arab society demonstrates how Netanyahu sees the community as no-man’s land in the electoral battle – and maybe even the group that will decide the election in his favor.
In the past, such a scenario would have been considered to be fantasy. During the recent election campaigns, Likud and the other Zionist parties had almost no foothold in Arab towns – and the Joint List received 87 percent of the Arab votes.
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Ali Salam, the mayor of Nazareth does not need me to tell him what it means to be a proud Arab citizen of Israel, nor does he need Ayman Odeh Mk, the smooth-talking Communist leader of the Joint List to tell him anything about that, as he was twice elected to be the mayor of the largest Arab city in Israel.
Jan 14, 2021
“There is no leader like you in the whole country who can give not only to the Arabs and not only to the Jews,” said Mayor of Nazareth Ali Salam.
By Aryeh Savir, TPS
Ali Salam, the Mayor of Nazareth, announced Wednesday that he supports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that “there is no one like [him].”
He made the statement during Netanyahu’s visit to a Clalit Health Services clinic in Nazareth where an operation to inoculate the population against the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
“What the prime minister did, no one did. We have never had it so good as now. If it was not for you taking care of the corona, I do not know what we would do,” he declared.