Palestinian Arab citizens who make up roughly 20% of the population have become central to the country's electoral balance of power. Until 1966, basically there was not genuine Palestinian representation in Israeli Knesset. That began to change most radically in the 1990s when Izzah Rabin began to negotiate the Oslo Accords and two Palestinian-led parties backed him.
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