(Reuters/Ha'aretz) U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Thursday that the U.S. wanted to see broad participation in this month's Israeli elections, implicitly criticizing the preliminary disqualification by the Central Elections Committee of Israeli Arab MKs Ahmed Tibi and Azmi Bishara and Bishara's Balad party. "We're of course interested in broad participation in the political process in Israel, as we are elsewhere....I'm not commenting on the particular individuals or the parties or the political aspects of this. I'm commenting on the question of the broadest possible participation in the political process," Boucher said.
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