The Palestinians are now telling Israel for whom they can and cannot vote.
Palestinian officials have warned they will take retaliatory steps, including joining the International Criminal Court (ICC), if Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is re-elected in a general election due next month.
They have also raised the possibility of mass demonstrations, encouraging international sanctions against Israel and ending the security co-ordination with the Israeli military that has kept the West Bank largely quiet since the end of the Palestinian intifada in 2005.
The warning is a counterattack against a flurry of announcements from Mr Netanyahu’s government that it intends to build new settlements consisting of more than 6,000 homes in east Jerusalem and the West Bank on land the Palestinians want as part of a future state.
After you get over the shock at the hubris of the sons of bitches warning Israel that they are not allowed to vote the way they see fit, you have to laugh at the Palestinians once again co-opting the Israel line. Netanyahu warns that there will be retaliation for the Palestinians trying to make an end run around negotiations by getting the UN to recognize the faux mini-statelet of East Palestine? That’s okay, now the Palestinians will warn of retaliations if Netanyahu wins re-election. The utter ridiculousness of the stunt? Don’t worry, they won’t be called out by the anti-Israel media. They never are.