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Magazine Article
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1992
Overview
This year will be no exception. Despite months of talk about political unity, the Arab vote is more split than ever, with the three Arab-oriented parties feuding and votes floating toward the \"Zionist\" left Labor and Meretz and even toward the Likud. And despite a clear thumbs-up from the fundamentalist Islamic Movement for Muslims to participate in the elections, insiders say the Democratic Front, the PLP and the Arab Democratic Party will be lucky even to retain the total of six seats they won in 1988. Then, four went to the Democratic Front (two of whose MKs were Jewish and one of whom, Charlie Biton, broke away in mid-term) and one each to Miari and Darawshe. About 40 percent of the Arab vote went to the Zionist parties. And many votes went to waste because the Arab parties did not come to any surplus-votes agreement. \"[Muhammad Miari] thought he could get away with raising a flag and not doing any work,\" says [Al-Sinara]'s [Lutfi Mashour]. Samih al-Qasem, editor of Nazareth's other independent weekly, Kul al-Arab, adds that Arab voters \"first and foremost want to be Israeli. Secondly, they want to improve the economy of the Arab sector. They're not interested in the ideology of Miari or the Democratic Front.\" What Arab politicians fear most is that many disillusioned Arabs simply won't vote. Still more may cast their ballot for the Zionist parties, which have worked hard in their own right to increase their popularity among Arabs. Nawaf Massalha, who has a safe seat on Labor's list at No. 20, reckons that Arab votes could account for \"up to three Labor seats,\" and perhaps one more for Meretz. David Mena, head of the Likud's campaign in the Arab community, says his party did not leave a stone unturned, even holding first- time campaign visits to all-Muslim and usually hostile towns such as Majd al-Krum and Tira. The pitch: that only the Likud can bring peace and prosperity.
Publisher
Jerusalem Report
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