Mondoweiss - Gary Spedding comments on yesterday's Israeli elections in his post "No ‘Democracy in Action’ for the Disenfranchised":

I thought to highlight the overriding flaw found in the idea of Israel having an airtight democracy. This is demonstrable simply by discussing just who does get a vote in Israel’s democracy, highlighting the fact that one in every 4.5 people living under Israeli rule does not have the right to vote.

Indeed whilst their Israeli neighbors living in the illegal settlements, constructed on snatched Palestinian land, were casting their votes in locally available ballot boxes, the completely disenfranchised Palestinians living under Israeli rule in the Occupied Territories were not even able to utilize the privilege of voting because as Liel Maghen learned and expertly articulated; the right to vote is not a basic right in Israel, but a privilege dependent on geography and ethnicity.