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Yes you do since Netanyahu is doing the same political stuff Putin is doing. He's literally passed a law preventing the courts from holding him accountable for anything he does to maintain power. Which absolutely includes using the police to intimidate voters.
So please, elaborate.
Israel has been in a state of war continuously since the mid 2000's. The election of Hamas was not a declaration of war against Israel. No matter how much you want to pretend. You don't even need to go into cold war era to disprove the myth of them only defending themselves. To boot, many of their military adventures are justified by having settler militias attack Palestinians so the IDF can look clean when it clears the Palestinians out of a village. It's a pattern repeated over and over again in Colonial history.
"We conquered this so it's ours" went away at the end of World War 2. Not even the Soviet Union could make it stick anymore. The Israelis do not get some special dispensation to kill the locals and take their land. They can take the same deal settlers got in Africa. Become citizens of the unified successor state with democracy everyone gets to participate in
He's simply not. Russia fakes elections in a way that lets us know they are faking elections and don't give a shit:
Bibi is trying to neuter the Justice system, which would be a power grab, and he is trying to intimidate voters, but he doesn't outright fake elections. He's not an autocrat, (not yet anyway.) He is still beholden to popular vote in a way that Putin never will be. And because of this democracy he's likely to be removed from power soon.
Putin just straight up murders and throws his political opponents in prison, en masse. He will be removed from power when he dies, and any claims of Russian democracy by the Federation are made in bad faith, to support comparisons like this one.
That would have been nice. Jews started out by legally buying the land until a xenophobic Arab nationalist movement was whipped up and started a cycle of massacres, making a 1-state solution impossible, and the hostilities never stopped. Most of that land was taken as a result of failed wars waged against Israel.
One doesn't need a special dispensation for self-defense. Letting an enemy who outnumbers them and wants to drive them into the sea elect their leadership sounds like a terrible idea, that isn't remotely viable today.
Right. I'm guessing you haven't cracked a history book in the last decade or so.
Israeli settlers were the ones who pushed the British out and then started burning out Palestinians. We have the British Army reports on it. At the end of the day Israel is nothing but a modern colonialist state. Winning the war doesn't give you moral authority.
And Bibi has already neutered the justice system. That law got passed.
Edit - and repeating myself. Hamas doesn't want to kill all Jews. That's Israeli propaganda. Their charter lays out their specific demands. A return to the 1969 borders or the dissolution of the state of Israel. So a two state solution or a one state solution. Not a permanent occupation and Apartheid.