Our masses go to elect their representatives before the state, not within state institutions

An opinion article arguing that Arab public participation in Israeli elections aims to elect representatives before the state, not within it, amid an alleged Israeli consensus on the illegitimacy of their votes, which constitute 14-15 seats, citing the Rabin government's refusal to appoint an Arab minister in 1992.

An opinion article discussing the nature of Arab public participation in Israeli elections, asserting that the concept of participation for them is limited to electing representatives before the state, not within its institutions, as they are the remnant of a people displaced from their land in 1948. The article claims there is an Israeli consensus on the illegitimacy of Arab votes, which according to recent polls constitute 14-15 seats, and their exclusion from the political game, weakening chances for a change in the Israeli political reality. It cites the refusal of Rabin's "leftist" government to grant Abdul Wahab Darawshe's request to appoint an Arab minister from the Labor Party in 1992, as evidence of the continued marginalization of the Arab voice even by leftist Zionist parties.