The Arab street remains indifferent to the election, and its representation in the Knesset may shrink - Walla! 2021 Elections

2021-03-23T10:49:31.882Z

The Arab parties are concerned about the expected decline in the turnout, and fear the consequences of splitting the joint list and the RAAM and voting for the Zionist parties. The young people are debating who to vote for and make it clear that they are not in anyone's pocket.

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"There is a broken atmosphere that could not have been continued together."

The Joint List faction, in 2019 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

"The regular players slept standing up, as usual they thought we were automatically voting for them," he told Walla!

Bilal Hassadiya, 40, from the Puridis local council near Zichron Yaacov, is married and the father of two daughters, who is still debating who to vote for.

"The joint campaign was weak, with no clear messages. The RAAM came with a focused message, and we must admit the truth - 'Abu Yair' was also a key player."

Hasdia claims that young people in Arab society are looking for change. "Young people are tired of the existing leadership, which is not. Contributes in general to our struggle for civic equality, "he said." We hope for change, that we will get on the field, score goals and win.

It is enough that our parents sat in the stands for decades.

We are not in anyone's pocket and vote for each one according to his conscience, his beliefs and his own interests.

These elections proved that the Arab voice is equal to the Jewish voice and all parties are fighting for it.

We hope that everyone will go to the polls. "

The main concern in the Arab parties is a catastrophic combination of a decrease in the percentage of votes, while an increase in the voter turnout for the Zionist parties.

If the whole gave a great result in the last election from the sum of its parts, then now the Arab representation may shrink.

It is possible that the "We are all Abu Yair" campaign managed to gather votes.

Ballots at Fureidis, in 2019 (Photo: Yoav Itiel)

According to a survey by research firm Stat-Net, managed by Yosef Maklada, last Friday, 19-18% of Arab voters will vote for Zionist parties, 30% for the RAAM and 52-50% for the joint list. "This puts the RAAM with four and a half seats, "And if she managed to get another 15,000 voters this week, she could get five seats and be the real surprise of the election," Macalda said.

His poll predicts only 58-57 percent turnout, but he said "any unusual incitement event during the day may change that figure significantly."

He said, "It was a very passionate election campaign, the religion came in very strongly from the Islamic movement and the Ra'am, who claim that the whole split came because of the distance in the agendas, from where it started.

" "There is a broken atmosphere due to disappointment that it was impossible to continue together "There is a feeling that many people want to punish the leadership for the split, which came after the achievement of the joint in the last election," said Jafar Farah, director of the Mossawa Center for Arab Civil Rights in Israel. Of Arab society. ”The Arab voice has become an important voice and the Arab voter has returned.

There is less racist incitement against him.

People like Netanyahu and Lieberman completely changed the political discourse in their wake of the failure to gather votes in the previous elections, during which racist attacks did not work. "

Farah said that" leakage "Zionist parties retreat. However, he added that the campaign may" all Abu Shine "Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, including the billboards hung and removed in Arab concentrations, managed to collect the votes cast in the last elections for Blue and White and Meretz, and that they might still add a two-seat mandate to the Likud. "Deir smells and this time apathy is revealed," said Farah.

The split interrupted the process of pluralization of the joint.

RAAM Chairman Mansour Abbas visits Rahat this week (Photo: Official Website, RAAM Communications)

It should be remembered that the current elections come against a background of unprecedented achievements in the 2020 elections, and as Dr. Arik Rudnitzky of the Israel Democracy Institute noted, not only were 15 representatives elected from the joint Knesset list, but for the first time a woman was elected from each of the four parties. All four women were elected, who made up 27% of the faction's members.The joint list also led the Mishkan factions to the religious diversity of its elected representatives: ten Muslims, three Christians, a Druze and a Jew.These achievements may go down the drain and lead to limited representation. For the first time in the Zionist parties, neither Nail Zoabi in the Likud, nor Abtisam Mara'ana at work. The

split seems to have interrupted the process of pluralization and 'unification' of the common, while also leading to a 'reimization' of the campaigns. , And more election conferences in which there is a separation between men and women, also in the joint list.There is also a fear of talking openly about feminist values, supporting LGBT rights and working for civil marriage, which is required quite a bit in Muslim-Christian Arab society.

Because of this, there are those who call for not voting for the Arab parties and there are those who call for not voting in the elections at all.

Young people express less enthusiasm for the election.

Demonstration against crime in the Arab sector in Jaljulia, last week (Photo: Official website, Flash 90)

At the same time, there is less enthusiasm among young people, and a large proportion of them, especially those who are politically active, have joined movements that do not participate in the Israeli parliamentary game.

Many of the young people who demonstrate week after week in Umm al-Fahm will not go to the polls at all.

"These elections are crucial for both political stability and the future of Arab society, and instead they were the ugliest in terms of messages against each other," said Yanel Jabarin, a 23-year-old political activist from Umm al-Fahm.

"There are two camps with a completely different agenda. The young people did not feel they were at the heart of the election campaign at all. Instead they heard camp-to-camp statements from people who until three months ago were partners. This is interpreted as 'pike', and it will hurt voting rates."

Jabarin, a graduate of the Hebrew University of Communication and Political Science, added that "there are also those who have come to the conclusion that the protest in the street is more influential than in the Knesset. I personally believe in a combination of both. Therefore I will vote, in addition to demonstrations ".

There are also those who mention that if Mansour Abbas and his party pass the blocking percentage, he will probably be able to boast that RAAM is the strongest party in the Arab public. This will help him justify the split from the previous body in which Hadash chairman Ayman Odeh was Y. "At the same time, there is a fear that Ra'am will not pass, everything will go down the drain and, as usual, Bibi will emerge the winner," says the list and chairman of Ta'al, Ahmad Tibi, was the faction's chairman, while Abbas remained. One of the activists.

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