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🇮🇱 Israeli Arab party leader FIRES BACK at Likud's claims of a “stolen” election Joint List leader Ahmad Tibi slammed Netanyahu's Likud party over allegations of election fraud, calling them the excuses of sore losers. “There were no irregularities in the elections. The accusations made by the Likud are merely the rhetoric of the defeated.” Tibi accused Likud of trying to discredit Arab voters as his alliance celebrated what he called a sweeping victory. The Joint List is projected to take 12 seats, with Ra’am claiming another 7, giving Arab-led parties 19 of 120 Knesset seats. Likud cries foul as Arab parties claim a major win. Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Marie

🇮🇱 Israel just held an election and nobody won... I sat down with Miko Peled, the grandson of one of Israel’s 1948 signatories, to discuss what happened. Netanyahu took the most seats, but is 7-8 short of a majority. He can bribe defectors with ministry seats, or accept a national "unity government" with rival Eisenkot. Arab parties just won an unprecedented 18 seats in the Knesset, and neither side will go near them... Netanyahu’s first move after the results came in was to call them a fifth column and Hamas sympathizers, just to make sure no one gets any ideas. “He’s either going to get defectors to join him, for the good of the nation, of course. Or they will have a national unity government, also for the good of the nation.” However it shakes out, the change Israelis, Gazans, and the world were hoping for seems much less likely now. @MikoPeled