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Echoing
Ben-Gvir, the far-right Israeli finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich,
has also called on Shin Bet to interrogate the leaders of parties representing
Palestinian citizens of Israel, amid claims of alleged foreign election
interference that critics say risk casting suspicion on the Arab vote.
“The
suspicion of election manipulation using foreign Islamist money is a litmus
test for the State of Israel,”
Smotrich said on X.
“The heads
of the Arab parties must be interrogated by the Shin Bet today.”
Golan
accuses Netanyahu of 'ugly delegitimisation campaign' against Arab voters
Hot
on Eisenkot’s heels, Yair Golan, the leader of the centre-left
Democrats, has accused Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to “undermine the
election results through an ugly delegitimisation campaign” targeting Arab
voters.
Netanyahu’s
Likud party has claimed – without evidence – that parties representing
Palestinian citizens of Israel
had “stolen” the election and demanded the police and the Shin Bet investigate
the allegations.
In a post on
X, Golan said:
Netanyahu
suffered a crushing democratic defeat. The public fired him, and he refuses to
accept the verdict of the voters.
Now he
is trying to undermine the election results through an ugly delegitimisation
campaign against the will of the public, and against the Arab public in
particular.
Any
genuine suspicion of damage to the integrity of the elections must be
investigated to the end.”
Israel’s
central elections committee has requested the Shin Bet to investigate alleged
foreign interference, the Associated Press reported, citing claims in a letter
dated Wednesday of funding by “foreign entities against the Israeli interest”
but providing no details or assessment of their validity. The source of the
allegations remains unclear, and the committee has requested findings within a
week, ahead of the 4 November deadline for certifying election results under
Israeli law.
Eisenkot
warns against exploiting foreign interference allegations to delay Knesset
Gadi
Eisenkot, leader of
the Yashar party and Benjamin Netanyahu’s main rival, has warned political
opponents against exploiting allegations of foreign interference in Israel’s
election to delay the swearing-in of the next Knesset.
In remarks
reported by the Israel
news website Ynet, Eisenkot said:
Israel
must safeguard the integrity of the elections against any attempt at
interference, spin and manipulation, and examine every complaint thoroughly. On
the other hand, political actors must not be allowed to exploit the
situation and affect the swearing-in date of the 26th Knesset.”
Gadi
Eisenkot at the Yashar party's campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday
as initial exit polls were released following Israel's elections. Photograph:
Paulina Patimer/JNA/ZUMA Press Wire/ShutterstockShare
Ben-Gvir
calls for arrest of Arab political leaders
Israel’s
far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has called for
the arrest of leaders of Arab political parties, citing unsubstantiated claims
of foreign funding.
In a post on
X, he said the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security service, “must order, as
early as this morning, the arrest of the leaders of the Arab parties suspected
of involvement with Qatari funds”, without clarifying further.
The Shin Bet
has not responded to the allegations.
As
reported earlier, Israeli police and the central elections committee have
said there is no evidence of election fraud.
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