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Mar 14, 2021
While Arab citizens of Israel have traditionally supported candidates from their own community, the tide appears to be shifting.
By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel
A poll released over the weekend by the Israel Democracy Institute showed that almost one-third of Israeli-Arabs want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to continue as prime minister,
Channel 12 reported.
That statistic may reflect the trend among Arab citizens of Israel to view themselves more as part of the active fabric of Israeli society, as opposed to a separate entity within it.
This year, Netanyahu is actively pursuing Israeli-Arab votes, which was reflected in the survey that showed 31 percent of Israeli-Arab voters polled want to see Netanyahu remain prime minister. While 56% said they don’t want Netanyahu, that number reflects the prime minister’s rating throughout Israeli society, where Netanyahu’s Likud Party is not expected overall to win more than a quarter of the seats in the Kness
The mayor of Nazareth, the largest Arab town in Israel, announced on Feb. 11 that he was backing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s March 23 election.
Outside of Israel, this landmark development was only sparsely reported on in American media. In a Reuters’ article that highlighted Netanyahu’s anti-Arab history, Arab leaders disparaged the mayor, Ali Salam. “Maybe it’s Stockholm Syndrome, to have empathy with that person who kidnapped you or oppressed you,” Ahmad Tibi, longtime Arab-Israeli member of the Knesset, was quoted as saying.
Nowhere in the article was there any discussion of the dramatic improvements in the lives of Israel’s Arab citizens over the last 15 years. Yes, they still lag behind their Jewish peers in terms of educational access and economic opportunity, and they’re contending with an insufficiently addressed recent crime wave. But even in the face of those sobering facts, Israel has made major steps forward in fostering better quality
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a coronavirus vaccination facility in the northern Arab city of Nazareth on January 13, 2021. (Gil Eliyahu/POOL/AFP)
In a rare visit to the Arab city of Nazareth on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a 2015 video broadcast in which he urged Likud voters to go vote because “the Arabs are voting in droves” had been twisted by his political opponents.
“They twisted my words,” said Netanyahu, claiming that “My intention was not to protest against the fact of Arab citizens voting in elections,” but rather “to protest against their voting for the [Arab-majority] Joint List party.”
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