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Aaron Klein, Jerusalem Bureau Chief for WorldNetDaily.com, reports that fewer than 15,000 Arabs just determined who may serve as Israel's next prime minister. That may be the case following Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's slim win here by just 431 votes in yesterday's primary for the leadership of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Kadima party. The primary elections had a high Arab turnout. 

Now, if Livni can form a stable governing coalition – meaning if she can recruit enough parties to maintain a plurality of the Knesset's 120 seats – she would finish out Olmert's term in office, becoming prime minister in his place until new elections are held as scheduled late next year. But if she does lead the country, Livni will hardly have a mandate, as she was elected not by the majority of the Israeli public, but in internal party elections in which less than 0.5 percent of Israelis took part. More than 10 times that number vote in Israel's version of "American Idol."