{"id":130163,"date":"2026-05-25T12:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/130163\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:38:10","slug":"israel-votes-2026-israels-arab-parties-united-ideology-power-struggles-and-gender-gaps-still-stand-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/130163\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Votes 2026 | Israel&#8217;s Arab Parties United. Ideology, Power Struggles and Gender Gaps Still Stand in the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-chromatic=\"ignore\" aria-describedby=\"_R_22inubsnpfcnl6bpalb_\" title=\"The Arab party chiefs: Sami Abu Shehadeh, left, Ahmad Tibi, Mansour Abbas and Yousef Jabareen. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi; Ori Loven\/GPO; Naama Grynbaum; Emil Salman; Artwork: Nadav Gazit\" alt=\"The Arab party chiefs: Sami Abu Shehadeh, left, Ahmad Tibi, Mansour Abbas and Yousef Jabareen.\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"510\" height=\"600\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/opening-arab-parties.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz x193iq5w xh8yej3 x14yg85 xl1xv1r x1s8dy9j x5yr21d\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Arab party chiefs: Sami Abu Shehadeh, left, Ahmad Tibi, Mansour Abbas and Yousef Jabareen. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi; Ori Loven\/GPO; Naama Grynbaum; Emil Salman; Artwork: Nadav Gazit<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">With this revived political union, many in Israel&#8217;s Arab community are seeking more influential leadership. But there remains a wide gap between that aspiration and the politicians&#8217; ability to realize it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arab party chiefs: Sami Abu Shehadeh, left, Ahmad Tibi, Mansour Abbas and Yousef Jabareen. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[9860,37,25871,2742,43500,4028],"class_list":["post-130163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-arab-israelis","tag-israel","tag-israeli-elections","tag-israeli-politics","tag-joint-list","tag-knesset"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116635258368967585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}