Les partis politiques arabes seront-ils interdits d'election en Israel ?
La guerre sert de prétexte pour écraser les Arabes en Israël, Eilat Maoz et Fadi Shabita
Des militants sont arrêtés, la police dénature les faits et les dirigeants politiques autorisent une persécution politique. Israël profite de l’offensive militaire pour opprimer ses citoyens palestiniens.
Israel bans Arab parties from running in upcoming elections, Associated Press, sur le site de Haaretz.
Le comité central des elections a banni les partis politiques arabes pour la prochaine election parlementaire.
Je rappelle que cette election est cruciale apres l'echec de la "modérée" Livni a former un gouvernement. Certains avance que cette election est l'une des raisons de la guerre à Gaza. En tout cas seul le parti communiste presentera un nombre decent de candidats arabes. Il faut savoir que les arabes représentent 1/5e de la population d'Israel et ne possedent actuellement que 7 sièges sur 120 entre autres parce qu'ils boycottent les elections. Le risque aurait été qu'ils votent en masse à cause de la guerre et obtiennent 24 sièges et pesent ainsi sur le futur gouvernement.
D'après l'article qui suit, plus de 50% des députés actuels d'orginie arabe ne pourront pas se représenter.
Israel Bans Arab Parties From Election
Posted January 12, 2009
By a margin of 26-3, the Israeli Central Elections Committee decided to ban the Balad Party from running in next month’s election. By a margin of 21-8, they also banned the United Arab List-Ta’al (UAL-T). The two bans will prevent more than half of the current Arab members of Israel’s Parliament, the Knesset, from running for reelection.
The Arab parties earned the ire of the most hawkish elements in the Israeli government by publicly opposing the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip. Balad likewise made enemies by explicitly calling for equal rights for all citizens of Israel, regardless of national or ethnic identity, which the ruling Kadima Party said would “undermine Israel’s identity as a Jewish state.”
A handful of Arabs will remain on the ballots across Israel, running for as-yet-unbanned Jewish majority parties, but with the general consensus among most of the population that Israeli Arabs are traitors based purely on their ethnic background, they would seem to have an uphill battle. Many disillusioned Arab voters may not vote at all, now that the only significant Arab parties aren’t allowed on the ballot.
During the discussion, Balad Chairman Jamal Zahaika called the move to ban his party “a test for Israeli democracy” and warned that the ban would lead to an outright Arab boycott of the election.
Zahaika also asked Avigdor Lieberman, the driving force behind the ban, “Why are you afraid of democracy?” Lieberman declared Balad a terrorist organization and said “whoever values life” would understand the need to ban it.