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If anyone were in any doubt as to who was behind the attempt this week to block veteran Arab politician Sami Abu Shehadeh from standing in next month’s Israeli general election, that doubt vanished on Friday afternoon when cell phones across Israel lit up with a recorded message from the far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir. “We promised that we would not allow the head of Balad, Sami Abu Shehadeh, to enter the Israeli Knesset — and that is what we did,” he boasted. “Yesterday,
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