Tag: Balad

A columnist in the P.A.'s official newspaper said one goal of influencing Israeli elections is to foment civil unrest.

The head of the Central Elections Committee had previously decided to ban Chikli from running for the Knesset.

The administration of US President Joe Biden has expressed its adamant opposition to any appointment of Itamar Ben Gvir as a minister in the next government.

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

They represent the missing six seats Lapid would need to get to the desired 61.

Balad is not likely to pass the electoral threshold.

The Balad party gave out fake receipts to hide that their election-related donations came from other sources.

Israeli attorney general Avichai Mandelblit decides not to put her Balad Party on trial despite evidence indicating its guilt, citing potential harm to a “wider circle.”

In recent months, polls of Israeli Arabs have shown that about 30% of them who in the past voted for the Joint Arab List would prefer to vote for a different party.

The Joint Arab list was also against peace with the UAE.

As of Sunday, some two weeks after sending the letter and filing the complaint, the monument still stands, according to Ad Kan.

Balad faction members who visited with Abu Shehadeh the family of Iyad al-Halak who was shot dead by police in eastern Jerusalem will also go into isolation.

On Sunday afternoon, should the representatives of Labor, Meretz and Israel Beiteinu all recommend Gantz as well, then Gantz will have to be the president's choice.

Like the proverbial Lion in Winter, near the end of his illustrious career Netanyahu is surrounded by scores of his vengeful enemies.

Gabi Ashkenazi and Chili Tropper are also opposed to forming a government dependent on the anti-Zionist Arab MKs.

Benny Gantz would have no choice but to lean on the Joint Arab List in the Knesset, if he wants to form and maintain a majority government.

According to the law, the prime minister must invite the opposition leader, as needed but no less than once a month, to chat and update him on state affairs.

Police suspect that during 2013 the party deposited about NIS 3.2 million from a source that has not yet been identified with the funds fraudulently declared as donations from private donors.

With the August 1 deadline nearing fast, the four Arab forced-partners will have to come up with a slate, or suffer even greater rejection by their voters.

Running separately, the four parties won 10 seats in April 2019, three seats fewer than they won in Israel’s national elections in March 2015 when they ran together.

Over the years and to this day, almost all the Balad MKs and their family members have worked for the Association for Arab Culture.

The list is ideologically as diverse as can be imagined, with most of the members having precious little in common with one another other than their ethnicity, which is also questionable.

In addition to the two major lists fighting for the Arab vote, Hadash-Ta'al and Ra'am-Balad, a number of new parties are also vying for the Arab vote, which are not expected to approach the 3.25% vote threshold.

"Ofer Cassif, Tibi and Zoabi, supporters of terrorism every one, are in, but Ben Ari, a Zionist Jew whose sons serve in the IDF, is out."

On December 28, 2015, Cassif posted on Facebook an attack on Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked whom he called a "neo-Nazi [expletive]."

Zahalka slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "war criminal responsible for the deaths of thousands."

Balad's stated purpose is to opposes the idea of Israel as a Jewish state.

Apparently, according to a behind-the-scenes agreement, in return for the Haredim blocking the Kisch bill, the Joint Arab List will support the latest Haredi-inspired version of IDF draft law.

The decision to ban a Knesset debate on the proposed “Basic Law: A Country of All Its Citizens” was adopted by a vote of 7-2. MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) abstained.

Disagreement over a rotation agreement is threatening to dismantle the Joint Arab List, which to date has been a monumental success story in Israeli politics.