of Aqabato Israeli shipping, thus instituting an effective blockade of the port city ofElatin southern Israel. On May 30,King Husseinof Jordan arrived inCairoto sign a mutual defense pact with Egypt, placing Jordanian forces under Egyptian command; shortly thereafter,Iraqtoo joined the alliance....
The Labor party, Israel's largest opposition party which had 18 seats in the recent parliament, gained only six seats this time. Meretz, a left-wing party, lost one seat and will enter the parliament with four seats only. Hadash-Ta'al, an alliance of Arab parties, won six seats, and ...
Meanwhile, Israel's main Arab political alliance Joint List seemed to become Israel's third largest party, in a "historic" win for the Arab minority. Exit polls indicated that the Joint List won 11-13 seats in the Knesset. Ayman Odeh, leader of the Joint List, a faction composed of four...
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Six seats. The larger of two mostly Arab blocs in parliament. All the Arab-dominated parties joined forces in 2015 but split in two this year, and saw their combined seat tally falling from 13 to 10. The group has one Jewish member of parliament, and advocates an Arab-Jewis...
Syria prepared to attack Israel from the Northeast Jordan joined the alliance on may 30, and Iraq on June 4. Contingents were dispatched from Algeria, Morroco, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to join in the assault. The world looked on at what was believed by many to be the impending destruction ...
and strengthening of its close alliance with imperialism—especially with the imperialist circles of the USA, which were attempting, with the aid of the reactionary forces of Israel, to consolidate their position in the Middle East and to weaken the anti-imperialist struggle of the Arab peoples. ...
PartyandNoam,and together they won 14 seats in the Knesset, making it the third largest political alliance in the parliament. One thing that truly shows how much might the far-right in Israel has, is the fact that they have dominated the coalition government with the Likud.The Likud party ...
The party also announced that it would contest September’s election alone, confirming a split with the Union of Right-Wing Parties (URWP) – a right-wing alliance of the Jewish Home and National Union parties – with which it had a workingarrangementahead of the April election. ...
Defence Minister Yoav Gallant also said Israel had an opportunity to form a strategic alliance "against this grave threat by Iran." Israel remained on high alert, but authorities lifted some emergency measures that had included a ban on some school ...