"There’a quote by Ahmed Tibi, a Palestinian member of the Knesset, saying
that Israel is indeed a Jewish and democratic state - it’s a democratic
state for the Jews and a Jewish state for the Palestinians. Meaning
that only Jews enjoy democracy. … If you’re an Israeli Jew, you’re
pretty much safe; If you’re a Palestinian in the West Bank, you don’t
experience democracy, you experience a dictatorship. And this is
something many people don’t understand.Many people think that either
Israel is a dictatorship for everyone, and it’s not - it’s a functioning
democracy for Israeli Jews, and limited and imperfect and all that, and
on the other hand you have this phrase “the only democracy in the
Middle East,” where Palestinians never experienced this democracy."
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