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Palestinians dismiss Israeli election as unlikely to alter occupation policies
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Palestinians across Gaza and the West Bank expressed deep skepticism about Israel's election, viewing it as unlikely to produce meaningful shifts in policy toward the territories, Al-Monitor reported. In war-ravaged Gaza and the occupied West Bank, many residents said they were less concerned with which political party would win than whether any government would substantively change course.
The pervasive pessimism reflects Palestinian experience with successive Israeli administrations, all of which have maintained or expanded settlement construction and military operations in occupied territories despite periodic electoral shifts in Jerusalem.
