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Tintrlvr
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« on: January 08, 2019, 10:19:39 PM »

Here's a cool chart of political affliation by religious identity.



Why do so many Arab Christians vote for the communists? Is it because they support Palestine and aren't Islamist?

One of Hadash's MKs is an Arab Christian. I think Hadash being not only not Islamist but generally secularist obviously helps with a religious minority within a minority. And the thresholds mean there can only be so many parties, so a separate Arab Christian party is not viable.
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Tintrlvr
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2019, 04:36:41 PM »


Tibi has always been personally popular among Arab Israelis, and I imagine his break with the Joint List has gotten him a lot more press than usual. Ta'al+Joint List is only polling one seat above or below last time around, which is pure noise.

Does look like his split with the Joint List is even enough that they will both easily clear the threshold.
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Tintrlvr
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2019, 05:30:38 PM »


Tibi has always been personally popular among Arab Israelis, and I imagine his break with the Joint List has gotten him a lot more press than usual. Ta'al+Joint List is only polling one seat above or below last time around, which is pure noise.

Does look like his split with the Joint List is even enough that they will both easily clear the threshold.

Yes that's what I meant. Ta'al only had 1 MK? but now they have large chunk of the old Joint List vote. It's a bit surprising.

They were originally allocated 2 MKs but lost one to rotations. I guess Tibi didn't negotiate well on the Joint List nominations last time around, and I have to imagine that was a big part of why he decided to go it alone this time.
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Tintrlvr
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« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2019, 02:12:01 PM »

What's interesting is that Kulanu, which Bibi would likely need to cross the threshold to stay in power and which may not actually cross the threshold, has been very quiet when everyone else in the Kahanist alliance has promised post-election support for Netanyahu as PM. If that Times of Israel poll is correct, Gantz could get a strong and stable majority with Kulanu's support, and he wouldn't even need the Arab parties to do it. I don't believe that Kahlon wants to be part of a leftist government, but give him the treasury and ostensible veto power on legislation (as there is no majority without him) and you may very well have the first center left government in almost 30 years in Israel.

But I still think a national unity government under PM Gantz is the end game here, especially for Kahlon, and probably for Gantz/Lapid, too.

It's obvious that a center-left coalition including Kulanu would be the result if that poll actually came to life. After all, the right even including Kulanu does not have a majority (B&W+Labor+Meretz+Arabs is 65 seats) on that result, so B&W+Labor+Meretz+Kulanu is the only realistic coalition other than something a bit crazy like the religious parties with B&W or a B&W-Likud "grand coalition".

That said, I'm skeptical until we have more polling.
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Tintrlvr
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« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2019, 05:01:51 PM »

How hard is it to get pork in Israel? What are the prices like?

Depends. There are special Russian supermarkets that sell it in places with high concentrations of immigrants, as well as Christian Arab villages. Not sure about the prices, but my parents are low middle class and don't have much trouble getting it.

Do Druze eat pork?
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