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Benjamin Netanyahu's camp increased its attacks on Israeli Arab parties on Thursday, on the way to obtaining a high number of seats in the Knesset after Tuesday's parliamentary elections. He accuses them of having received funds from abroad. President Isaac Herzog called on him not to stigmatize the entire Israeli Arab vote.
In Israel, one of the surprises of the legislative election, marked by a strong participation of 77.7%, is the breakthrough of the parties representing the Arab minority, who campaigned against the Prime Minister and his far right allies.
In the aftermath of the Israeli legislative elections, the two Israeli Arab lists are on their way to winning a record number of seats in the Knesset on Wednesday. While no bloc seems able to obtain the absolute majority alone, the support of the Arab parties appears to be the only option of the opposition to bring down Benjamin Netanyahu.
The two main blocs seem to have insufficient seats to form the next government without depending on Arab parties.
The President of the Republic, who received in the morning of 18 September the candidates for his succession or their rightful arms for a meeting on the crises threatening France, considered that it was his "duty" to carry out this type of "exercise of transparency" so that the political forces were well informed. The explanations of Roselyne Febvre, political columnist in France 24 and Claude Poissenot, sociologist and researcher teacher at the University of Lorraine.
