Elif Eralp, whose far-left Die Linke party won Berlin's election, accidentally sent Der Spiegel internal messages saying she and her husband feared naming party supporters linked to Hamas and the PFLP; the magazine published the remarks Thursday
After years of home demolitions, crime and discrimination, Bedouin voters chose to protest by democratic means, turning out in record numbers. Fraud allegations left many feeling that even their election participation is being cast as illegitimate
The Arab parties' stellar showing wasn't a polling collapse; every forecaster saw the uptrend in the months before the vote. But the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot fell far short of Netanyahu's coalition, and this was a major miss