❗️Israeli politician calls for Israeli government 'without Arabs' According to a report by The New Arab, former deputy foreign minister Sharren Haskel called for the formation of a right-wing Zionist coalition strictly excluding Palestinian citizens' political parties. Writing on social media, the leader of the fringe Israel First party blamed ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for driving up voter turnout among Palestinians, accusing them of turning out Palestinian voters "in droves to anti-Zionist parties." Haskel, who established Israel First in July after resigning from her post to protest military draft exemptions for Haredi men, insisted that the country requires a "broad national government" composed exclusively of rival Jewish factions: "Without the Arabs!" Her political platform advocates for a national unity structure independent of both non-Zionist Arab parties and ultra-Orthodox religious blocs, seeking to force a compromise among main-line Zionist lists.