💥Read Anshel Pfeffer to the end: "Netanyahu didn’t invent discrimination against Arab Israelis. It goes back to the pre-state era. But Netanyahu turned it into his personal political project starting with his first elections as head of the Likud, in 1996, when he took Arthur Finkelstein’s advice to brand his base as "Jews" and not "Israelis," and on election day he approved the Lubavitch "Netanyahu is good for the Jews" campaign. We remember his "Hordes of Arabs are flocking to the polls video," but that’s just one milestone in a long saga. In his wisdom, Netanyahu doesn’t seek to strip Arab Israelis of their rights. They’re free to vote and be elected. Instead, through ongoing delegitimization, he empties that right of all meaning, until voting is perceived as a threat to the state’s security and the very presence of Arab representatives in the Knesset becomes irrelevant to any coalition consideration. The success of this project to erase Arab representation is so perfect that even many of Netanyahu’s opponents accept it without question."