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Dark Days of October
One week from tomorrow, Israelis will head to the polls for the fifth time in about two and a half years. Why Israel ends up going to the polls so often, and how this rate makes Israel one of the least stable governments in the world, are subjects for a different conversation.
For now, as we are in the final days of October, we turn to a specific disappointment of these upcoming elections, no matter what the result.
This Haaretz headline sums it up: it is expected that Israeli Arabs will vote in historically low numbers next week.
On the surface, that makes absolutely no sense. After all…
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