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Joe Meek's avatar

To be clear here Travis, the Palestinians in Gaza and The West Bank are not Israeli citizens.

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Travis's avatar

Okay, “residents” of Israel rather than citizens, but still….

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E2's avatar

IMO the best term is "Israeli subjects." The land and people are not formally Israel-proper, but are entirely under the umbrella of Israeli law (in this sense only, akin to a place like American Samoa, under US law).

There are 2 million ethnic-Palestinian citizens of Israel (blue IDs), with voting rights, but we're talking about the 5 million West Bank and Gaza residents (green IDs), who are *subject* to Israeli law but have no say in it.

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Joe Meek's avatar

They're not even residents of Israel. Gaza and the West Bank are not part of Israel at all.

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