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Friday, March 27, 2020
Weekly Commentary: Attention talking heads - the 3.25% threshold caused Israeli Arabs to support unacceptable list

Weekly Commentary: Attention talking heads - the 3.25% threshold caused
Israeli Arabs to support unacceptable list
Dr. Aaron Lerner 27 March, 2020

In the last few days there has been a spate of articles bemoaning the
massive support which Israeli Arab voters gave to the fundamentally
unacceptable Joint List.

It is important to keep in mind that the rise of the Joint List was in no
way a natural development.

A few years ago Avigdor Liberman came up with the genius idea of raising the
threshold for representation of a list in the Knesset to 3.25% of the vote.

Liberman was confident that this would knock out at least one, if not all
three, Arab parties. Instead all three ran together while a series of
parties in the national camp that refused to unite failed to pass the
threshold, thus "burning" what turned out to be historically critical votes.

We know from polls that the Israeli Arabs would prefer leadership that can
be full participants in a ruling coalition government. But the 3.25%
threshold effectively cuts off any initiative for such an alternative
leadership to get into the Knesset.

The solution is simple: reduce the 3.25% threshold that alternative
Israeli Arab leadership can have a reasonable shot at getting into the
Knesset.
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