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.
What bothers me is not the comments of Tucker, or people like him, but Israel’s non-actions towards the realities around it.
There is no such thing as a “Palestinian” People or any nation, state, country or kingdom of “Palestine” ever existing throughout Earth’s 4.54 billion year history.
This communist invented ahistorical genocidal fraudulent mythology should have been crushed in ’67 with all so-called “Palestinians” – Islam – transferred out of all the lands liberated and/or conquered in July of ’67.
Had the above happened, World history would be entirely different today.
It is obvious Mr. Carlson doesn’t know history or anything really about the realities of Islam.
There’s a reason why his Bible, like the Jew’s Bible and the Moslem’s Qur’an, do not mention any “Palestine” or “Palestinian” people because neither Moses, Jesus nor Muhammad knew any either.
The only reason the so-called “Palestinians” – read Muslims/Islam – exists in the region of the Palestine Mandate and, subsequently, 56 other – once non – Islamic lands is because of the Jihad.
It is Islam and the agenda within Islam to Islamize all that is non-Islamic by any means necessary: al-Jihad that we find all these problems existing today.
Islam, like Socialism, is a problem that must be dealt with however the West, including Tucker, don’t seem to have the stones or the knowledge to confront and expose this murderous genocidal cancer that Israel, too, won’t extirpate from its lands; which include Judea, Samaria and Gaza….
An ignoramus pinhead!
The “Palestinian people” a fabrication form the USSR to be used against Israel.
Tucker has no idea that Arab governance is based on the concept of TRIBALISM (M Kedar). Tribalism, the polar opposite of individualism and state.
What kind of channel would give this Jew hater a platform?
The operators of the channel should be charged with
treason.