Summary
A Labor Knesset member who, on Dowty’s account, resigned from his party in protest over the army’s handling of the intifada and founded the Arab Democratic Party to contest the 1988 elections (The Jewish State: A Century Later, lines 4261-4325).
Details
- His party’s platform stressed a bargaining strategy: presenting itself as a potential coalition partner within the broad Israeli consensus while at the same time supporting Palestinian statehood in the territories and trying to gain favor with the PLO (The Jewish State: A Century Later, lines 4261-4325).
- During the extended governmental crisis of 1990 Shimon Peres invited Darawshe, as the sole Arab Democratic Party Knesset member, to join a projected, but stillborn, Labor-led government; in 1992 the party’s two votes were counted on from outside the government instead (The Jewish State: A Century Later, lines 4261-4325).
Related pages
The Jewish State: A Century Later, Arab Democratic Party, First Intifada