An Israeli politician calls for an Israeli government 'without Arabs' According to a report by "The New Arab", the former deputy foreign minister, Sharan Haskel, called for the establishment of a right-wing Israeli coalition that would completely exclude political parties of Palestinian citizens. In an article on social media, the leader of the fringe party "Israel First" accused ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich of increasing the turnout rate among Palestinians, and accused them of directing Palestinian voters "en masse to anti-Israeli parties. Haskel, who founded Israel First in July after resigning from her post to protest exemptions from military conscription for ultra-Orthodox men, insisted that the country requires a "broad national government" composed solely of rival Jewish factions: "Without the Arabs! Its political platform advocates a national unity structure independent of both the non-Israeli Arab parties and ultra-Orthodox religious blocs, seeking to force a compromise among key Israeli lists.