Israel’s furious Arab parties could oust Netanyahu — if the opposition will break an election promise

Read the original at New York Post ↗
Cite

Reyes, R. (2026, October 26). Israel’s furious Arab parties could oust Netanyahu — if the opposition will break an election promise. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/10/26/world-news/israels-furious-arab-parties-could-oust-netanyahu/

Dated from the outlet's own feed. Check the original for its byline.

New York Post · collected 2026-10-26 · by Ronny Reyes

Quick Summary

Ahead of Israel’s upcoming general elections, Israeli-Arabs could determine the outcome due to the close race between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot, who each are predicted to secure around 50 seats in the Knesset, short of a majority. Both leaders will need to gain support from smaller parties like the Joint Arab List and United Arab List, which together could have at least 13 seats. Despite earlier pledges not to form alliances with these Arab parties, opposition leader Eisenkot may be compelled to reconsider his position given public opinion polls suggesting he would eventually make such deals if elected.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-26, using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the same event (that is the story summary below).

AI analysis runs on qwen2.5:14b, locally

Story summary

Summary unavailable.

Written for “Israeli Election And Political Landscape” on 2026-10-26, grounded in this article and the 21 other(s) covering the same event.

Story

📰 Israeli Election And Political Landscape
Politics · 22 article(s) covering the same event. Compare every outlet's account →

Compared with similar articles

This article reads leans left and hedges 13% of its claims. Each row says how that neighbour differs.
The Straits Times
⚖️ Leans strongly right further right than this 🔴 22% hedged 8 of 36 📰 publisher trust 68
“The articles describe different stages of Israel's political situation, with Article A focusing on strategic policy and Article B on the upcoming election results and potential outcomes.”
The Hindu
⚖️ Leans left 🔴 3% hedged 1 of 29 📰 publisher trust 77
“The articles discuss different aspects of the upcoming Israeli election and do not describe the same specific incident or occurrence.”
AIPAC’s shift different event · 95%
Dawn
⚖️ Leans left 🔴 3% hedged 1 of 36 📰 publisher trust 72
“The articles discuss different topics: one about AIPAC's shift in endorsing candidates, and another about potential political outcomes of an Israeli election.”
CBC News
⚖️ Leans left 🔴 13% hedged 6 of 46 📰 publisher trust 60
“The articles discuss different topics within Israeli politics: one focuses on emigration trends, while the other discusses upcoming elections and potential coalition dynamics.”
CBS News
⚖️ leaning not scored 🔴 33% hedged 1 of 3 📰 publisher trust 66
“Both articles discuss the upcoming Israeli parliamentary elections on October 26, 2026, focusing on Netanyahu's position and potential outcomes involving the opposition.”
The Straits Times
⚖️ Leans left 🔴 0% hedged 0 of 15 📰 publisher trust 68
“The articles discuss different aspects of the upcoming Israeli election and do not describe the same specific incident.”
The Straits Times
⚖️ leaning not scored 🔴 38% hedged 3 of 8 📰 publisher trust 68
“Article A reports on Netanyahu's warning about potential Iranian disruption of elections, while Article B discusses the strategic importance of Israeli-Arab parties in forming a government after the election.”
Semafor
⚖️ Leans right further right than this 🔴 15% hedged 8 of 55 📰 publisher trust 60
“The articles discuss different aspects of political situations involving Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel, but describe separate events happening in distinct contexts.”
New York Post
⚖️ leaning not scored 🔴 3% hedged 1 of 29 📰 publisher trust 66
“The articles discuss different aspects of upcoming Israeli elections and their potential outcomes, rather than describing a single specific incident.”
TIME
⚖️ leaning not scored 🔴 7% hedged 8 of 115 📰 publisher trust 59
“The articles discuss different aspects of Israeli politics and do not describe the same specific event or incident.”
How this article was measured signals, leaning charts, publisher record, byline, topics and claims

Signals How these are calculated →

Claims extracted
15
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
13%
2 of 15 hedged ("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
Leans left
of the writing, not the subject · beta estimate
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
22
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Analyzed 2026-10-26 · how these are computed

How this is being covered How these are calculated →

Article leaning vs. publisher reliability
Source leaning vs. consistency

Publisher

New York Post · 13959 article(s) · 35 correction(s) detected
Running correction rate · 35 correction(s)

Who wrote this

Ronny Reyes
60 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction
🔮 Israeli-Arabs could sway the balance of power in Israel’s general elections next week as the country’s two major parties are predicted to fall short of a majority in the Knesset.
🔮 Brinksman would go on to hold top secret security clearance while working as an employee of a US government agency and later as a systems developer private contractor working for the same agency, prosecutors said.
🔮 Flora attended a mandatory court appearance on Saturday, with the wrestler set to return for a follow-up hearing next Monday, TMZ reported.
🔮 But the US blockade on Iran’s ports has prevented Tehran from replenishing its supplies, which shrunk to below 1 million barrels by Oct. 5 and is now virtually gone, according to the Kpler maritime analyst firm. “There’s no more oil to discharge to China anymore,” Homayoun Falakshahi, head of crude-oil analysis at Kpler, told the Wall Street Journal.
🔮 Local authorities will be alerted,” the alert read.
🔮 Aid flow from the European Union remains volatile after Slovakia and Hungary announced earlier this week that they would not participate in the bloc’s push to provide a nearly $80 billion aid package to Ukraine.
🔮 The goal is to get a peace deal that will favor the Kremlin, but also for Russia, China and the US to establish spheres of influence around the world, a former Moscow intelligence officer with knowledge of the talks told the Journal.
🔮 Iran’s top diplomat warned Sunday that the Islamic Republic would take care of some “unfinished jobs” if the US renewed its attacks on the Middle Eastern nation.
🔮 “One day, all of us here will also die, and sometimes the time we’ve spent on things doesn’t have as much meaning as the time we spend with God,” he said. “The quality time we give to God, to our brothers and sisters, to our husbands, wives, children, and family— that time is the best spent,” Molinari added.
🔮 A member of the temple told reporters he doesn’t know why protesters would go after the synagogue, suggesting they were likely targeted for antisemitic reasons. “It can’t be a coincidence that they chose to target a Jewish place of worship,” the congregant told IsraJ. “They must have thought that since they are Jewish, there must be money there.” In France’s second-largest city of Marseille, which boasts one of the largest Jewish populations of any city in Europe, rioters vandalized dozens of shops — stealing a range of products ranging from high-end Hermes items to slices of bread, according to local reports. Ariel Goldmann, of the Unified Jewish Social Fund (SPCJ) organization, confirmed that some of the shops hit by the vandals were owned by Jewish people.
Also by Ronny Reyes
Nothing else under this byline is closely related to this article, so these are simply their most recent.
All 60 articles by Ronny Reyes →

Topics

Arab Israel Israeli Arabs Israeli-Arabs Knesset

Subjects

Arab NORP · 6× Eisenkot PERSON · 6× Israel GPE · 3× Knesset ORG · 3× Netanyahu PERSON · 3× Abu Ras PERSON · 2× Change ORG · 2× Israeli Arabs NORP · 2× Israeli-Arabs NORP · 2× Scheindlin PERSON · 2×

Narrative

Israel’s Arab minority — who make up 20% of the population — are expected to have a high turn out in the polls to send a message to Netanyahu and lawmakers about the needs of their community, Thair Abu Ras, a researcher at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, said Thursday during a Brookings Institute discussion on the election.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-10-26
🔮 Israeli-Arabs could sway the balance of power in Israel’s general elections next week as the country’s two major parties are predicted to fall short of a majority in the Knesset.

Claims (15 extracted, 2 hedged)

Israeli-Arabs could sway the balance of power in Israel’s general elections next week as the country’s two major parties are predicted to fall short of a majority in the Knesset. uncertain
parties → sway → Knesset
Nearly all of Israel’s polls ahead of Tuesday’s election indicate that the parties aligned with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot each get around 50 of Knesset’s 120 seats, falling short of the 61 needed to form a government. asserted
parties → indicate → government
The outcome would force both leaders to curry favor with the smaller parties in government to win. asserted
outcome → force → government
A big question remains whether the opposition will work with Joint Arab List and the United Arab List, which are predicted to get at least 13 seats. asserted
which → remain → seats
Eisenkot, a former Israel Defense Forces chief, and other opposition parties have said they will not form alliances with the Arabs. asserted
they → say → Arabs
Israel’s Arab minority — who make up 20% of the population — are expected to have a high turn out in the polls to send a message to Netanyahu and lawmakers about the needs of their community, Thair Abu Ras, a researcher at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, said Thursday during a Brookings Institute discussion on the election. asserted
Ras → make → election
Unlike the 5.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza Strip, the 2.1 million Israeli Arabs have full citizenship of the Jewish state and are governed by the Knesset. asserted
Arabs → have → Knesset
While the Arab parties have typically avoided coalition politics to avoid associating themselves with leadership occupying Gaza and the West Bank, Abu Ras said the parties are now looking to play ball with Eisenkot’s Change coalition under an “ad-hoc cooperation” policy. asserted
parties → avoid → policy
“So ad-hoc cooperation is basically to work with the Eisenkot coalition, the Change coalition, on a number of issues that they’re generally in agreement with them on,” Abu Ras explained. asserted
Ras → work → them
This would include fighting Netanyahu’s judicial reform to reduce the power of the country’s Supreme Court, and establishing term limits for lawmakers that would prevent the prime minister — who has been in and out of power since 2009 — from staying in government. asserted
who → include → government
The parties would also likely push Israeli lawmakers to address the rise in organized crime and violence in Arab-majority neighborhoods, which they claim has long-been ignored. uncertain
they → push → neighborhoods
The push for the Arab parties’ active involvement comes after nearly every single member of the opposition parties, including Eisenkot’s Yashar party, rejected any form of cooperation with the minority group. asserted
member → come → group
Dahlia Scheindlin, a pollster and senior analyst at the Haaretz newspaper, said relations with Israeli-Arabs reached an all-time low after the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks — despite Israeli Arabs also being victims of Hamas. asserted
Arabs → say → Hamas
Despite his vow, Scheindlin predicted that Eisenkot will have to go back on his word and make a deal with the Arab parties if he wants to defeat Netanyahu. asserted
he → predict → Netanyahu
“Everybody expects these parties to break their promises,” Scheindlin said, citing polls where the majority of respondents believed Eisenkot will team up with the Arab parties. asserted
Eisenkot → expect → parties
💬Give feedback
🕘History 🎫Support