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    • @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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      39 months ago

      Yeah, both the Fatah and Gaza because both know that Palestinian people have largely become fed up with their combined inefficacy in trying to make a country of millions with a superior military just disappear.

      Not to mention Iran constantly intervening to keep Hamas armed enough to suppress dissent.

    • BraveSirZaphod
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      29 months ago

      “They”, meaning the Israeli government, couldn’t force an election because they withdrew from Gaza and have no direct power there. Hamas suspended democracy to any meaningful degree because they don’t care about it. In the West Bank, elections have been suspended by the Palestinian Authority because it’s likely that Hamas would win them and create another Gaza, which Israel would not allow to happen.