Yes, they do hold elections, have competing political parties, and appear to have reasonably honest government.
Yes, they have a vigorous free press which can and does fearlessly criticise the government without being shut down.
No, they deny the vote to an underclass, the people who live under Israeli rule in the Occupied Territories, identified by ethnicity - a thoroughly racist stance, an apartheid system.
No, they force people off their property so they can build homes on Palestinian lands which cannot be acquired unless you are Jewish, and they pay subsidies to encourage these squatters ("settlers", if you prefer to use a euphemism.).
2007-02-28
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