Comment by revenant718
7 hours ago
>> Israel is in de facto control of the lives and futures of all 15 million people "from the river to the sea"
> We're straying from the original topic of disenfranchisement
What a laughable statement. This is entirely the point of the disenfranchisement claim.
In what way is it laughable? Please contribute something of substance.
To wit, if you get to vote for the HOA board but not for the government that can override every decision the HOA makes, are you meaningfully enfranchised?
They're arguing that due to the failure/stalling of the two-state solution, the PA is effectively not a national government. It administers local services, like policing, courts, infrastructure. But it doesn't control borders, tarrifs and duties, or airspace. The Israeli military operates a parallel legal system that can detain and prosecute them, all under a legal framework that they have no vote or say in. I think its fair to call this a kind of disenfranchisement?