Iraqis head to the polls Nov. 11 to elect 329 parliament members for a four-year term, marking the seventh free election since Saddam Hussein’s 2003 fall. Candidates are treading carefully, pledging neutrality in the geopolitical tug-of-war between the United States and Iran while using accusations of “normalization with Israel” as a weapon to discredit rivals. The specter of Israel looms large in Iraq’s electoral rhetoric, despite the country’s lack of formal ties with the state. “There are