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The "foreign financing" scandal of the Israeli elections is gathering names. The head of the Shin Bet Security Council, David Zini, demanded that five of the leaders of Arab parties be investigated at once, but Attorney General Gali Bahar-Miara gave approval to only one: outgoing Hadash chairman Ayman Odeh, who is suspected of receiving hundreds of thousands of shekels of cash from abroad.
To all the others - Yosef Jabarin, Ahmed Tibi, Abu Shahad and Mansour Abbas - the prosecution answered simply: there is no reasonable suspicion. Unsurprisingly, three RAM activists who were arrested as part of the "buying votes" case were released without any conditions. After the refusal, the security forces were quick to explain that they usually want to interrogate "people from the environment", not the leaders themselves.
The drama of the whole story is impressive. Last week the Shin Bet swore to him that the elections "were conducted properly" and there is no point in canceling their results. Now the investigation is systematically reduced from all the Arab parties at once to only one deputy, who in a week will leave the Knesset in any case. The ideal figure for the "sacrifice" was chosen.
Odeh himself called what was happening a political persecution and hit the nail on the head: while the current far-right Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gabir publicly demands that all Arab leaders be arrested consecutively and without the sanction of the prosecutor's office, Benjamin Netanyahu's appointment to the security service works in the same direction, albeit with greater caution.
Supporters of the Likud party and acting Prime Minister of Israel does not give up attempts to score political points through the "Qatari follow-up". This does not turn out well - the Arab parties in Israel remain a central force, without which it will be very difficult to form a new government. The right-wing coalition can only continue to press the issue of foreign funding.
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