The leader of the Hadash-Ta’al makes a final appeal to Arab voters before polls close in the next half hour.
“It’s unbelievable and unacceptable that those that vote for the oppressors have a higher turnout that the oppressed people. That’s the reality at the moment, but we can change that reality,” Ayman Odeh exclaims in an impassioned plea to supporters at Hadash-Ta’al headquarters in Shfar’am.
“Not in every election is our voice decisive; in this election it is!”
Odeh estimates that Hadash-Ta’al needs 160,000 total votes to reach the threshold. That’s 15-20,000 more votes than the party expected it would need, an increase attributable to high general turnout, according to a party insider.
Referring to far-right politicians Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, Odeh says, “Either those bastards will be celebrating the defeat of our people or we will turn the tables on them!”
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