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NOVANEWS RSS FOLLOW EMAIL PRINT SHARE Majeda El-Batsh| Agence France Presse ACRE, Occupied Palestine: In the days ahead of Israel’s April 9 elections, activists in the country’s north were not trying to convince some residents who to vote for but just to vote. Israel’s 1948 Palestinian citizens, who account for some 17.5 percent of the population, have been engaged in a debate over whether to boycott the upcoming elections.In 2015, Arab parties ran under one alliance and finished with a historic tally: they won 13 seats out of 120 Parliament, making them the third-largest force. But this year the Arab population is facing their own divisions in addition to hostility from Israel’s right-wing and questions over whether participating in the elections in the past ha...