• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Those elections were for the West Bank too. They decided to stop holding elections because Israel blocked them from taking their place. At that point, why have elections?

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      6 months ago

      There are local elections in the West Bank. There aren’t national elections because holding a national election in the West Bank only would be an admission that Gaza is a separate territory from the West Bank, so there would no longer be just one Palestine.

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        6 months ago

        Well yeah, because West Bank is still controlled by the party Hamas beat in elections. The party that was beat because they’re an Israeli puppet.