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December 11, 2012

Reuters: Election candidate hopes to draw Israeli Arabs out of shadows

by Jihan Abdalla
Reuters

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - One Israeli Arab election candidate aims to lead his community out of the margins of Israeli politics - saying their interests have been overshadowed for too long by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Atef Krinawi says he would even be willing to make an unprecedented electoral alliance with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud, the party to which he once belonged.

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