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If we put what up for a vote? In what context? And when?

Your post is basically poking the Trump administration for not introducing democracy to the Gazans. I'm asking you who they'd vote for if they got to elect a government.

Hamas would get trounced in a vote. The Palestinian folks have suffered horrifically. If all they get out of it is a return to the status quo ante but with their land in ruins, they'd run Hamas out of town on a rail.

Really. I don't believe that. Culturally, the Palestinians are a broken people. They've been marinating in victimhood and antisemitism for so long I don't know how you unwind that. Even if they tossed Hamas out with the garbage they'd elect a group that would be so ideologically similar to Hamas there wouldn't be much daylight between them.

Trump knows there's no Palestinian George Washington and he doesn't want to make the same mistake that Bush43 did with Iraq: some places just aren't ready to have open and free democracy.

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