Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets in recent days to demand that their government secure a deal that would release Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Nearly two-thirds of Israelis support such a deal - if not to put an end to the genocide, to at least put an end to the war for the sake of their own population. Why won't their government listen?
Despite the overwhelming support of their government, many Americans can't answer the question of whether Israel is a democracy or not. In a 2023 Brookings poll, more than half of the respondents said 'I don't know' when asked to describe whether Israel is a vibrant democracy, a flawed one, a state with restricted minority rights, or a segregated apartheid system.
The distance between U.S. rhetoric around Israel's supposed democracy and the actual actions of the Israeli state became clearer than ever on July 18, when the Israeli government passed a resolution rejecting any creation of a Palestinian state - a blow to decades-old U.S. policy and growing international consensus around the necessity for Palestinian self-determination.
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