LET NON-CITIZENS VOTE, TUCKER SAYS

Peloni: As noted previously, Tucker Carlson’s attacks on Israel are neither substantive nor rational.  They are based on manipulated facts, purjored testimonies, and perverse conclusions.  His attempts in doing so lay bare the great hypocrisy in his narratives, all of which are aimed at either defeating the US-Israeli alliance or splitting the MAGA movement in the US.  Carlson’s latest assault on Israel, calling for the legitimate right of Arabs in the PA to vote in Israeli elections is neither sincere nor material.  He should not have been granted the platform on Israeli Channel 12, nor on any other legitimate media platform either.  Doing so only promotes the disinformation projected as honest debate, as was clearly the case in the recent interview indicated below.

by Rafael Medoff

Tucker Carlson. Screengrab via Youtube

Tucker Carlson, who has devoted much of his career to warning against the danger of non-citizens voting in American elections, now says that non-citizens should be allowed to vote—in Israel, that is.

In an interview with Israel’s Channel 13 this week, Carlson said: “Of course, Israel is not a democracy in any sense. There are millions of people who live under Israeli control who cannot vote, right? And so if the West Bank—Judea and Samaria and Gaza or whatever we’re calling these places—which Israel has controlled since 1967, have people living in them who have no control over the government that controls their lives, which is true, it’s not a democracy.”

Apparently, Carlson is unaware that as a result of the Oslo accords, 98% of the Palestinian Arabs have been living under the control of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, not Israel, since 1995.

Those Palestinian Arabs are not Israeli citizens, so they can’t vote in Israeli elections. (Unlike Arabs who reside in Israel, who are Israeli citizens and take part in Israel’s elections.) As residents of PA and Hamas-controlled territories, they have voted in elections there—on the few occasions when elections have been permitted by their totalitarian rulers.

In 2005, Palestinian Arab voters elected Mahmoud Abbas to a four year-term as chairman of the Palestinian Authority. He is now in the 21st year of that term, a feat he has managed simply by refusing to have elections for his office.

The last election for the Palestinian Legislative Council that Abbas permitted was in 2006. That was the year Hamas won a majority of the seats, leading to it taking control of Gaza.

And that was the last time there were elections in Gaza—until last month, that is. Thanks to Israel’s temporary occupation of part of Gaza, residents of the Deir al-Balah area voted for their own municipal council members for the first time in two decades.

Hamas, battered and reeling from Israel’s counter-terror operations, with tens of thousands of its terrorists dead, its senior leaders eliminated, and hundreds of its tunnels destroyed, did not even compete in the election.

The “Free Gaza” movement and its echo chamber—including far-right extremists such as Carlson—haven’t said a word about the Deir al-Balah election. They prefer to pretend that Israel is the obstacle to Palestinian democracy when, in fact, Israel is the facilitator of Palestinian democracy.

The real goal of Tucker Carlson and the others who are denouncing Israel over Gaza is not to free Gaza, but to bash Israel, even if that means taking the position that non-citizens should be allowed to vote—in Israel’s elections, that is; not America’s.