Palestinian voters are the new power brokers in Israel, much to Netanyahu’s chagrin Yair Wallach
over 5 years in The guardian
Palestinians flocked to the Joint List party and denied the prime minister a majority. Now they could even help oust him
This election, the third in a year, was supposed to finally deliver Benjamin Netanyahu’s victory. His party, Likud, ran a relentlessly dirty campaign, which even Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, described as “awful and grubby”. Against the backdrop of his impending corruption charges, Netanyahu’s hope was that higher voter turnout would give Likud a majority.
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