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Originally Posted by Chris
That's some rather tortured logic.
The blogger writes for a website that states in its opening "about us" paragraph "we oppose the occupation" yet at the same time she chooses to construe Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as citizens who *should* have a vote, which then allows her to concoct a figure that suggests a large percentage of (mostly Palestinian) "citizens" are being denied their democratic rights.
She can't have her cake and eat it.
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Originally Posted by Chris
I think that's the wrong question. Eligibility to vote in a national general election isn't about the existence or otherwise of a foreign state. It's about who has citizenship of the state holding the election. It is very common for national general elections to extend voting rights to citizens staying abroad and for residents, even permanent, who do not have citizenship, to be excluded. Even Netanyahu doesn't claim that the status of Gaza and the West Bank has been finally settled, one way or the other.
The situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories is complex and trite blogs accusing the Israeli government of disenfranchising people who don't want to live under Israeli government, and in many cases don't even recognise that government's right to exist, are not helpful.
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Democracy isn't limited to a general election every five years and imo when people living less than a mile away have different voting, education, health, welfare, employment and legal rights I'd say they weren't living in a democracy no more than the south Africans were