Israel's Palestinian parties won 19 seats in last week's Knesset elections, provoking the anger of hard-liners in the country. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused them of fraud and of stealing the elections.
Attention on the Palestinian parties' success focused on the surprise of the result. The dynamic within a particular faction of Israel's Palestinian population — the people of the south, the Bedouin population of the Naqab — received no close examination.