During a Knesset TV discussion program including professors, experts on the Israeli political system and MK (Ra’am- Ta’al) Dr. Ahmed Tibi lashed out against the Governance Law, which increases the minimum threshold for a political party to enter Knesset. Tibi explains that today there is a harmonious relationship between the Arab and chareidi parties as a result of the abusive policies of the coalition.
Tibi, a political master, told his TV host that that he has no doubt that with the new law setting the minimum threshold in Knesset to four seats, the Arab parties will only increase. “The Arabs can do the math too you know” he explained angrily, stating that the draft law was directed at the chareidim and the governance law at the Arabs and this is the reality of today’s ruling coalition.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Remember that they also plan to extend conscription to all Arabs.
Also remember that perhaps a third of Arabs have been boycotting elections but may stop doing so. And the results in Beit Shemesh suggest that many anti-zionist hareidim who have been boycotting the elections may stop doing so.
The two all-Arab parties could unite to break the threshold, and the Communists (a largely Arab party with Jewish members) might either ally with Meretz or the pure Arab parties. The existing hareidi parties are in no danger of going below the threshold.
And since the zionists have started a policy to try to destroy the hareidi community, unless the hareidim can convince at least some of the zionists to alter that policy (e.g. many in Likud and Bayit Yehudi are uncomfotable with the war on Torah, and/or many on the left are also anti-conscription and could decide that supporting minorities is a “lefty” thing after all), the hareidim will be left only two choices: exile or alliance with the Arabs– and given the halachic significance of living (not ruling) Eretz Yisrael, many will prefer to be an autonomous community in Eretz Yisrael rather than moving to Brooklyn.
To #1 akuperma,
Your last line puzzles me. Wouldn’t an “autonomous community” in eretz Yisrael be considered a government of sorts?
If it is against the torah for the zionists to govern in Israel, why would the same not hold true for the haredim?