The author is right: Yehimovitch, Lapid, Livni and Meretz are pure racists. I call on everyone to vote Hadash and Balad instead.

Neturei karta would fit in nicely

Optimal is to unite with Likud and kick out the Feiglin faction under a Bitachonim Yehudi Grand coalition closing the social gap taking in moderate settlers who agree on no outposts going for Palestinian autonomy with their flags and anthems but Demilitirized and Shoah Educated like in the Denatzification of Germany .

And why wasn't Zoabi kicked out of the Knesset? Racism!

Absolute nonsense. Why are there Arabs in Jewish parties? You want to tell us they dont exist. Wheres your charge of racism against these parties? Both Labor and Likud have Arabs. So your accusation is false! Should these Arab parties act in a proper and fit manner and truly represent their electorate instead of Fatah, Hamas and Hezbollah then perhaps there can be co-operation. What you are calling for is to have our sworn enemy terrorist representation in OUR Government. Are you nuts? The parties shun them for this reason and not because they are Arab. Arab voters ought to boycott them until they get the message. They simply do not advance Arab communities in Israel they advance themselves alone.

in the left and rightwing parties. Even in Yisrael Beteino and Likud there are Arabs on the list for Knesset and they are speaking out on the Israeli parties youtube channels aswell as in Israeli parties websites. I am totally against ethnical parties. Israeli Arabs should be more involved in Israeli parties and work together with Zionists as Zionism is good for Jews aswell as Arabs

Amongst the many reasons are the Arab parties do not want to be party to any hostilities against their brothers. There are many reasons racism is not one of them,if it was practical,it would happen. The low turnout of Arab voters and their own infighting dis-empowers themselves.

parties instead of integrating into the general political parties of Israel - left, right and center. Some Arabs, properly, operate within the general parties of Israel, e.g. Likud, Labor, Qadima, Meretz and even Shas, and we should help all citizens of Israel, Arabs included, to take an active part in these parties. But, the leadership of the Arabs in Israel has opted, for decades, to exclude and seclude themselves instead of integrating into Israeli society, be in in the political, economic and social spheres. This act is a form of racism.

The Likud has an Arab Minister, Labor has in the past, and there are several lists that have individual Arabs on them. The difference is that the parties do not want to join with Arab parties that work against or deny the state's existence.

Maybe it is because the Arab parties do not recognize Israel as a Jewish State.

arabs MK don't sing hatikvah , zoabi was on board of ther marrmara tibi was counsellor of arafat; these are facts , these arabs want israel to disappear as jewish state , in any other country they would not be allowed to run for Mk 's vote

Every party/person can choose whom he want's to sit with and govern and who not. That's what democracy is all about! The writer is mixing apples & pears.

on racial grounds is APARTHEID !.

Israel is the only country in the world who permits her enemies to be members in her Parliament. I really I can not understand how do you let people who wants to destroy Israel and kill her people to be law makers in it? You need to stop this farce immediately.

The so called Jewish Left are the worst kinds of racists. Yehimovitch, Lapid and Livni just want someone to be their slaves.

If Jews refused to sing the local anthem and to stand up in Arab Countries, what will happen to them ? Any answers ?

the comments by this far left head of the abraham fund- an apologist group i've had the misfortune of working with back in NYC, not surprisingly fall on deaf ears because Israelis have wizened up! The Oslo accords were a national disaster and the lies that we were spoon fed by the leftist parties at the time, the leftist academia, and the leftist media- not to mention our frenemies abroad- are no longer being swallowed by the overwhelming majority of Israelis- I should know, I was one of these naive fools who believed the Rabin-Peres-Clinton BS. As for the Arab parties, they have done nothing to promote their own communities, which is why Arab voting rates are predicted to be less than 50 this year. Arab parties should focus on bettering their constituents IN ISRAEL, rather than engaging in a Pro-"palestinian" war against Israel!

Balad the party that includes Zouabi & Tibi that exists only to undermine the state and promote the palestinian agenda. Hadash the mostly arab, anti zionist communist party. Based on current polls Livni, Lapid, Labor and Meretz can't get the minimum 61 seats so they are going to need either Shas who Lapid won't be to happy about having or Hadash and possibly even Balad. I can just see the crazy coalition now The traitors of Balad The communists of Hadash The far left but not arab Meretz Livni & Shelly the mainstream left who like to be called centrists because thats more fashionable. Lapid the man who doesn't stand for much other than the fact he hates religion. A crazy coalition like that will be lucky to last a year and when the government falls and new elections held then things will get interesting. Arab parties - traditional 10-15 Religious parties - traditional 10-15 Labor - 0 Livni - 0 Lapid - 0 Meretz - 1-2 because they are a bunch of loony tunes anyway so some of their supporters could accept a coalition with traitors & communists. Other than that lot the only parties who will get any seats will be the right wing ones and it will be many many years before the left are considered trustworthy enough to vote for.

1992, against Shamir, Labor ran on Rabin's Center-Right platform after Labor voters rejected Peres' Center-Left platform. After the elections Labor with Meretz had only 56. Shas could have stayed out of the coaltion, but instead in exchange for many billions Shas joined giving the coalition 62. This is the coaltion that brought the lethal Oslo Accords. When Shas left the coalition, Labor bought Goldfarb for cash and gave us the Oslo II government that fell only because Rabin and Peres were helpless to stop Arafat's bus bomb war. Do not underestimate the Left. In exchange for power, they will cancel Haredi draft and give billions, something the Zionists cannot do. Shas and UTJ will never turn down such an offer. Paradoxically, the only thing that might save the country is Lapid's desire to appear honest.

they claim to be pacifists, many go to protest against IDF soldiers in the junctions. that is a paradox, since left wingers got alot in common with the ultra orthodox.

and why wouldn't it be? Especially when these 'center-left' parties all swear fealty to the lunatic idea of a 'Jewish' state rather than a state of 'all of its citizens'. When you begin with an exclusionary basis, why are you surprised when those excluded refuse to 'play' under those rules? Why hasn't an Israeli government ever accepted an 'Arab' party into a governing coalition? Why do Balad and Hadash accept Jews and Arabs as equal partners, yet Likud, Labor, even Meretz, refuse to allow equal Arab participation? Read the racist and ignorant comments in this Talkback section for instance. And understand that the entire rationale behind Israel; an outright exclusionary racist theocratic state for only Jews is silly, if not criminal.

And these Arab parties refuse to join a coalition with Zionist parties. That's racism. As the author himself admits, the Arab parties in the Knesset did not join Rabin's government, only supported it with votes from the OUTSIDE.

Somebody try to rob you in your home, and you think that you will be able to seat with him and philosophize : Why you are doing that? For 64 years Israel ask them : Why do you deny the Jewish historical right ? Why do you defile/defiled all the Jewish heritage site? Why are you abusing the freedom? And is a long list

where was your anti-religious-state whining when Vatican City-State was formed? Or do you only wake up when there's Hebrew people to be attacked?