Reply #27: That is a horribly misleading post. [View All]

[The Stranger]

Palestinians living in Israel get to vote and serve in the Knesset (parliament)

Only some very small portion of Palestinians are entitled to vote. The overwhelming and vast majority are not allowed to vote, and remain under a brutal military occupation after a half century. They are not even allowed to have their own state to vote for their own people.

And, Jimmy Carter is right, it is very much in the same way Black South Africans indigenous to South Africa were disenfranchised and White South Africa still claimed it was a "democracy." Black South Africans were forced into "townships," the Palestinians to "refugee camps."

Both face(d) a demographics issue. Too many indigenous people live there to be allowed to vote and still have a "majority" of non-indigenous people in power. The only way to maintain "majority" rule is to disenfranchise the indigenous people or force them off the land (usually by brutalizing them and settling their land).