Arab political leaders in Israel said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s apology, for comments he made in last week’s national elections that offended members of the Arab community, was not enough.
Mr. Netanyahu told a gathering of Arab community leaders that he apologised for his election-day warning to supporters that Arab citizens were voting “in droves,” saying that he did not intend to offend. But Arab-Israeli politician Ahmed Tibi told Israel Radio on Tuesday that Mr. Netanyahu’s comment was “not an honest apology.”
Aida Touma-Suliman of the Joint List, which received a majority of Arab-Israeli votes, said party representatives were not invited to the gathering where Mr. Netanyahu apologised.
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