On election
day in March 2015, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu filmed a
controversial 28-second video, warning right-wing voters that Arab citizens
were heading to the polls “in droves.”
A week later,
after winning against prevailing expectations, he apologized, saying he did not
intend to offend the Arab sector as a whole. Eleven years and six elections
later, Netanyahu is playing the exact same game on a much grander scale.
Following the
loss of his majority in the 27 Octo...