Netanyahu’s coalition chair angers Arabs with voting remarks
JERUSALEM — The coalition chairman of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government angered Israel’s Arab minority on Saturday by saying he would rather they didn’t vote, in comments reminiscent of those made by the prime minister last year.
David Bitan said the Arab Joint List in parliament doesn’t “represent the Arabs, they represent Gaza, Qatar and other countries.”
He said he would “prefer” if Arabs didn’t go to the polls to vote in elections.