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Roslyn Ross's avatar

This is excellent but one statement is incorrect - Gaza also has a democracy and elected government.

A country under colonial occupation cannot be a democracy because it is ruled by the colonial regime. Israel processes ID cards for every single Palestinian including those in Gaza as stated by Amira Hass in Haaretz in February 2024. That alone says Israel is the governing power for all of Palestine including Gaza.

The 2006 Legislative election held in all of Palestine did see Hamas win most seats but the colonial ruler, Israel, overturned the election and rendered it null and void so Hamas was elected to nothing.

Gaza is a prison, a concentration camp set up in part of Occupied Palestine by the Israeli military colonial occupation rulers and it is not a democracy. In a democracy there are regular elections and every Palestinian, not just those in Gaza would have to vote. That does not happen and has not happened for 19 years because the colonial power, Israel, will not allow it.

The accurate response for Israel's claim to be the only democracy in the Middle East is that no democracy can be an apartheid State as Israel is.

And in a democracy everyone living in the State has exactly the same rights and that does not apply to Israel because non-Jews have inferior rights to Jews and always have had and since 2018 non-Jews are denied nationality because there is no Israeli nationality just religious, Jewish nationality.

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Hachemi Hadjoudj's avatar

Clear and clean! Thank you for the indisputable description of a devilishly premeditated crime scene, which is intended to be the epilogue of a drama that began… a century ago…

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