Israel Bans Kahane Party From Election (original) (raw)
World|Israel Bans Kahane Party From Election
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- Oct. 6, 1988
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The Central Election Commission today banned Rabbi Meir Kahane's party from parliamentary elections next month on the grounds that it is racist and undemocratic.
The commission ruling, on a vote of 28 to 5, was made under a law written three years ago specifically to disqualify Rabbi Kahane's Kach party from elections. Rabbi Kahane, an American emigre, advocates forcible expulsion of all 2.2 million Arabs from Israel and its occupied territories.
Rabbi Kahane said he would appeal the ban to the Supreme Court. If the court upholds the commission's ban, the disqualification would be a major boon to the right-wing Likud party of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and could perhaps give the party the edge it needs to form a coalition to control Israel's government for the next four years.
Pollsters and analysts of the left and the right now rate the election a tie. Polls show that neither Likud nor Foreign Minister Shimon Peres's Labor Party is likely to gain enough seats, even with prospective coalition partners, to gain control of the government.
But an independent political pollster and analyst, Hanoch Smith, said his surveys over the last several months had shown that Likud could control a majority of the seats if Likud was willing to take Kach as a coalition partner. Kach Has One Seat Now
Kach now has one seat in Israel's 120-seat Parliament; Rabbi Kahane fills it. But the 10-month-old Palestinian uprising has driven thousands of right-wing voters farther right, and surveys now show that Kach would get at least 3 seats in the next Parliament.
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