popo

Dude, get yer facts straight.

Israeli Arabs do make up 20% (actually 17-18% but ok) but a good percentage of them (~30%) usually votes for parties such Labour so as not to split the vote with the Left and allow the Likud in. Others vote for Arab/Muslim parties such as Balad, Hadash-Ta`al, and United Arab List, not to mention all-encompassing parties like Am Echad. Contrary to what you may think not all Arabs vote for Arabs and not all Jews vote Likud/Labour.

That being said, last election 10/120 members of parliament were Arab/non-Jewish. The parliament before this one had 13 elected Arabs. One of the current elected Arabs is even part of Sharon's Likud party and IIRC he's one of Sharon's cabinet ministers.

So, here's a list of all elected members and their party affiliation:

http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mki...eng.asp?view=1

Note the 3 Arab parties that have elected officials.

For an in-depth analysis of the Arab vote:

http://www.jafi.org.il/education/act...s/2003/c2.html

And here are all parties that were registered for the 2003 election, along with their platforms:

http://www.jafi.org.il/education/act...platforms.html

C'mon, did you really believe that Israel had banned all Arab non-Jewish parties?? If you were told that, I can understand why you have such contempt for them but realize that whoever is handing you this info is serving up some major BS for their agenda.


Debaser:

I assume that you're talking about Palestinians in the WB & Gaza... As I'm sure you know, they don't make up any percentage of Israel's population since they're not part of Israel. Israel has never nor will it ever annex the WB & Gaza. But just for argument sake, the Palestinians did have their own elections and voted in you know who.