article_snippet: Under Ayman Odeh's leadership, Israel's tiny, splintered Arab parties have teamed up for the first time to form a slate known as the Joint List.
article_snippet: Come election day on Tuesday, Israel's tiny, splintered Arab parties are poised to take as many as 15 seats.
article_snippet: This could potentially make Israel's tiny, splintered Arab parties the third-largest party in the Knesset after Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party and Likud main rival, the Zionist Camp coalition, potentially giving Israel's tiny, splintered Arab parties the balance of power.
article_snippet: Until now, Arab parties have failed to unite because of deep ideological differences.
article_snippet: Arab parties run the spectrum from communist to Islamist.
article_snippet: There is some skepticism here that Arabs will finally have a say in how a government is run, but most are hopeful.
article_snippet: Arabs alone cannot make a democracy strong.
article_snippet: My dream is one day we will build a real Arab-Jew party, and I tell Jews to come join we and build a true democratic party in Israel.
highlights_snippet: Under Odeh's leadership, Israel's tiny, splintered Arab parties have teamed up .
  
highlights_snippet: Israel's tiny, splintered Arab parties are poised to take as many as 15 seats in the Knesset .