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724 points simonw | 2 comments | 11 Jul 25 00:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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0points ◴[11 Jul 25 08:39 UTC] No.44529722[source]▶
> Israel ranks high on democracy indicies

Those rankings must be rigged.

Nethanyahu should be locked up in jail now for the corruption charges he was facing before the Hamas attack.

He literally stopped elections in Israel since then and there's been protests against his government daily for some years now.

And now, even taco tries to have the corruption charges dropped for Nethanyahu, then you must know he's guilty.

https://nypost.com/2025/06/29/world-news/israeli-court-postp...

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-corrupti...

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Asafp ◴[11 Jul 25 08:51 UTC] No.44529811[source]▶
Almost none of what you wrote above is true, no idea how is this a top comment. Israel is a democracy. Netanyahu's trail is still ongoing, the war did not stop the trails and until he is proven guilty (and if) he should not go to jail. He did not stop any elections, Israel have elections every 4 years, it still did not pass 4 years since last elections. Israel is not perfect, but it is a democracy. Source: Lives in Israel.
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thrance ◴[11 Jul 25 10:22 UTC] No.44530493[source]▶
Israel is an apartheid state, many people living there can't get citizenship. Everything you call democratic there is not, then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_apartheid?wprov=sfla1

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reliabilityguy[dead post] ◴[11 Jul 25 10:31 UTC] No.44530552[source]▶
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1. thrance ◴[11 Jul 25 10:34 UTC] No.44530569[source]▶
Well then which is it? Is the West Bank Israeli or is Israel illegally occupying and colonizing the Palestinian state? You can't have both when it suits you.

Israel considers Gaza and the West Bank to be part of its territory, the people living there since forever are then citizens. Simple second class ones, which is the definition of an apartheid.

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2. reliabilityguy ◴[11 Jul 25 10:53 UTC] No.44530694[source]▶
Which is it what? These are occupied territories that in part governed by the Palestinian Authority.

Israel doesn’t consider Gaza its own territory whatsoever. Israel completely left Gaza in 2005. Why would they do it if they considered Gaza to be Israel?