{"id":648005,"date":"2026-10-16T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/648005\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:00:08","slug":"israels-arab-led-parties-could-decide-the-election-if-anyone-would-partner-with-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/648005\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Arab-led parties could decide the election if anyone would partner with them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NXCILU4DHRHCNL5IDMFGSPXPME\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BAQA AL-GHARBIYYE, Israel \u2014 Mansour Abbas has done <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-middle-east-israel-tel-aviv-9f570e7d01677e59cba3652c07fa7c75\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nearly everything<\/a> Israel asks of its Palestinian citizens.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RFNU5FI2OZGRZBXZVBMD5QGKPQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The leader of a small Arab political party condemned Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, attack. He rarely speaks about <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the war in Gaza<\/a> or Israel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-west-bank-violence-settlers-c9394defe87c7529655d9b23cab58cdc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">occupation of the West Bank<\/a> , instead focusing on local issues like crime. He broke a taboo in 2021 by bringing an Arab party into an Israeli government, in which he served as a loyal partner. This time around, the second-ranked member of his party list is a mainstream Jewish candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAQA AL-GHARBIYYE, Israel \u2014 Mansour Abbas has done nearly everything Israel asks of its Palestinian citizens. The leader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[159991,157768,72695,110,157769,157766,157767,4410,122,85,2036,46,291517,43,238,5468,7319,126],"class_list":["post-648005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","tag-2026-election-news","tag-citizenship","tag-discrimination","tag-election-latest-news","tag-election-news","tag-election-news-2026","tag-elections","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-indictments","tag-israel","tag-ml-israel-election-arab-parties","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-protests-and-demonstrations","tag-religion","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}