Of course you can. Just like in a democracy you can disregard the "freedom" a person have to murder his neighbor.
If the Palestinians elected a party which targets Israeli civilians with rockets and suicide bombers, Israel have any right to put diplomatic sanctions on the PA
Talking about the act of murder and then trying to transpose it into this debate concerning the relations of states/peoples is completely ridiculous imo.
If the Israelis , likewise , vote into government parties that target Palestinians for death and destruction , as they do , then you can't try to claim any moral high ground like you are trying to do in the above.
The suicide bombings and rockets tend to follow a pattern too. The Israelis start to harass and/or kill a whole load of Palestinians and then the rockets and suicide attacks start to take place
What is a "Jewish party" ? its pretty pretentious of you to divide Israeli Political identities into Jewish and Non-Jewish
The joint list is a union of several parties, with the leader Hadash which is a non-ethnic communist party with many Jewish members and voters (including a Jewish KM)
It's funny reading an Israeli complaining about someone dividing people into Jewish and non-Jewish. My meaning was a party supported predominantly by Jewish people with no Arab support as opposed to a coalition made up predominantly of the Israeli Arabs ( Palestinians ) population/voters with some Jewish supporters.
Meretz platform says there should be a two state solution based on 67 lines with agreed territorial exchange where both capitals are Jerusalem. Regarding settlements, it says they should start be evacuated now and all expansion should be ceased.
Good on them. But we all know that the Israeli leaderships mean to keep all the biggest illegal settlement blocks.
What I find contentious amongst the views expressed here and elsewhere is the following
That the extremist elements in Palestinian groups/parties are worthy of delegitimizing everyone else in the group/party but the same isn't the case for extremist Israeli Jewish elements. No delegitimation of the party for the outlandish and extremist elements in the Likud headed coalition
The Palestinians are only seen as legitimate partners for peace negotiations if they renounce armed actions against Israel and its citizens . Yet there are no reciprocal demands put on the Israeli governments with regards to the violence they dish out to the Palestinians that would render them as illegitimate partners for peace negotiations if held to the same standard.
The Palestinians are also the only Arabs that have been forced by the Israeli side into recognition of the state as the " Jewish state " of Israel. Israel has concluded two peace treaties with neighbouring Arab states , Egypt and Jordan , and neither were forced into conceding , or conceded , that Israel was the sovereign state of the Jewish people
The Palestinians are supposed to stick to the alleged peace process whilst people defend the expansion of existing illegal settlements or ignore new illegal outposts.
That Israel has a right to self defence and can kill and maim in the name of it but Palestinians that exercise their right to defend themselves are referred to as terrorists
That people often state that Israelis themselves determine their right to exist ( as a nation state ) but see no contradiction/problem in their continuing denial of that right to the Palestinians
And as long as I see these traits I will continue to challenge the bias that obviously underpins them
