Malign, Then Go for the Vote: Netanyahu Reaches Out to Arabs
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With less than a week before what’s shaping up to be another tight and inconclusive race against former military chief Benny Gantz, Benjamin Netanyahu took his election campaign to the people it’s bad-mouthed to galvanize his base: Israel’s Arab citizens.
The prime minister stopped at an Arab town on Wednesday to try and rustle up votes, or possibly more likely, to attempt to defuse a protest vote against a major theme of his -- that a government resting on Arab support would be a calamity for the country.