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4. "" Can someone tell me how the Kahnist party was allowed to participate in the election? ""
Wed Mar 24, 2021, 06:09 AM
Mar 2021

Sure , read this and weep :

https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/SkPBDHdN00

Netanyahu pressed the three far-right factions to unite to ensure they would pass the minimum electoral threshold. They fell short in last year’s election, meaning votes that could have helped Netanyahu went to waste. Now he will need them if he hopes to remain in office and pursue immunity from prosecution on a raft of corruption charges.

Their presence in what would likely be a narrow coalition government has raised alarms across Israel’s political spectrum, with critics arguing that Netanyahu will be beholden to their radical agenda for his political survival.

“The Kahanists want to join the government not just for the ministers’ plush seats, the salary and car, an army of aides and funding for their supporters. They have an agenda,” Nahum Barnea, a veteran columnist for the Yediot Aharonot newspaper, wrote ahead of the election.
“First of all, it means freedom for Jewish terrorists to operate in the territories. Second, it means destroying the justice system. Third, it means apartheid within Israel; racial separation at hospitals, universities, the civil service and the (military). Fourth, it means gender discrimination. Fifth, it means enforcing national-Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) religious codes. They aren’t playing around.”



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Israel election results [View all] sabbat hunter Mar 2021 OP
I've never claimed to understand Israeli or U.K. politics. Thanks for the insight. Vey. abqtommy Mar 2021 #1
Still hopeful center left could scrounge together enough seats for a majority. ColinC Mar 2021 #2
Its much to early to speculate . Israeli Mar 2021 #3
My guess is sabbat hunter Mar 2021 #5
Maybe , Israeli Mar 2021 #8
I withdraw my maybe Israeli Mar 2021 #12
It seems like sabbat hunter Mar 2021 #13
Bennett meeting with Bibi sabbat hunter Apr 2021 #14
"" Can someone tell me how the Kahnist party was allowed to participate in the election? "" Israeli Mar 2021 #4
Can't the courts sabbat hunter Mar 2021 #6
I said already that Bibi will Israeli Mar 2021 #9
Still a stalemate in Israel election. sabbat hunter Mar 2021 #7
Yes. Israeli Mar 2021 #10
A newbie question about the Israeli Election results. speak easy Mar 2021 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author Mosby Apr 2021 #15
Can you please fix your subject sabbat hunter Apr 2021 #16
How long will this drag on sabbat hunter Apr 2021 #17
Rivlin gave Bibi Israeli Apr 2021 #18
So 2 months sabbat hunter Apr 2021 #19
He has six days left Israeli Apr 2021 #20
I am not shocked sabbat hunter Apr 2021 #21
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