Salman Masalha
Israel election results: Letting Gantz form Israel's next government would be
poetic just...
Showing posts with label Elections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elections. Show all posts
Israeli Arabs, it’s time to play the political game till the end
It is clear to any intelligent person that advancing the interests of Arab citizens, a minority, cannot bear results without participating in the countries institutions of power and without the support of the Jewish majority...
The Israeli Election as a Racist Festival
The difference between Benny Gantz and Yitzhak Rabin
As long as things continue to operate along tribal, ethnic and religious lines here, there can be no hope....
Maybe Netanyahu Is Just Sick of It All
In a new election Netanyahu would be fighting for his life. He would go for broke and try to attack anyone who gets in his way with all his mig...
Battling Tribalism in Israeli Politics
It must be said unequivocally that any party that doesn’t aspire to replace the government, or at least to be part of a coalition that would be an alternative to the current government, has no political right to exist...
Abed L. Azab || Yes, I’m going to vote in the Israeli election
As in every election campaign, there is an opportunity to vote and exert influence. This time we must do so, to end the nightmare of right-wing rule....
Why Should an Israeli Arab Vote?
the existence of democratic elections – is being upheld doesn’t entitle the country to be called a true democrac...
The Israelification of Israeli Arabs
Vandalized Balad-Raam campaign poster in Reina, April 8, 2019
Contrary to prevailing conceptions, it turns out that the Arab public yearns to participate in determining the political and social agenda of this country....
Israel’s left is like the right
Anyone who aspires to lay a foundation for a genuine left must reject this separation. He must break the partitions that separate the country’s citizens on a religious or ethnic basis...
Good night, Blue and White
The most the Arabs can aspire to is to provide indirect help in forging a “Jewish unity” government. This indicates that the problem is in the Jewish court, not the Arab one....
The Joint List has no right to exist
Putting all Arab representatives together is an obstacle to the possibility of creating a civic national discourse that crosses ethnic and communal boundari...
Exciting Election? Israel Is Snoring
In democratic regimes the opposition is supposed to provide alternatives to the government. These alternatives are meant to show a different path in terms of ideas, society and politics...
Arab MKs must not shy away from seeking power
The Arab MKs, who swear allegiance to the state from the Knesset podium, must demand, and receive, all the rights granted to MKs, without exception...
Arabs, boycott the election in droves
Since political imagination is a rare commodity among the Arabs and their leaders I don’t foresee such a thing happening. ...
The right wing and the Arabs of Jewish faith
Salman Masalha ||
The right wing and the Arabs of Jewish faith
Iraqi Jews
Ashkenazi Zionism, which established the country in an ongoing confrontation with the Arab world, created a serious emotional crisis for Jews from Arab countrie...
Sayed Kashua || Israeli Arabs' only hope at the polls
Sayed Kashua ||
Israeli Arabs' only hope at the polls
Dear Salman,
First of all, I hope you’re in good health, and that we will be able to meet
again in Jerusalem. Forgive me for writing you in a newspaper and not in a
personal letter. But this time I felt it was my duty to publish a letter in
response to your recent opinion piece in these...
Why I’m voting Meretz
The
Joint List includes not only the equivalent of Yisrael Beiteinu of the
Arab street, in the form of the Arab nationalism of Balad; but also the
racist parallel of Habayit Hayehudi in the shape of the Islamic
Movement.
Salman Masalha ||
Why I’m voting...
Who is a Zionist?
There is no national solution other than the geographic and national division of the land, with everything that implies: A Hebrew state on one side and an Arab one on the other.
Salman Masalha ||
Who is a Zionis...
Israel’s Arabs and liberals are no great leftists
The ‘leftists’ only want to find favor in the eyes of the West, while the Arabs are only looking for honorific titles in the Knesset.
Salman Masalha ||
Israel’s Arabs and liberals are no great leftists
Jews and Arabs in Israel live in two different worlds that rarely overlap. There are Arab towns and Jewish towns. There are also “mixed...
What’s missing is an Israeli party
Israel’s decent Jewish citizens should vote only for parties that publicly state that Arab MKs must be part of any future government coalition.
Salman Masalha ||
What’s missing is an Israeli par...
