“But they voted for Hamas…”
ALT
Whatever your sympathies on the Gaza situation, please stop using this as a justification for anything, because it’s not true.
- most recent election in Palestine: 17 years ago in 2006
- age of suffrage: 18
- ∴ minimum age now to have voted then: 17+18 = 35
- Palestinian population: ~5 million (Gaza plus West Bank, per CIA World Factbook)
- …of which, people under 35: ~3 million
- ∴ ~ 60% of current Palestinians could not possibly have voted for Hamas
And
- in the last election, 44.45% voted for Hamas (who were then using the name “Change and Reform”)
- turnout was 75% (per Palestine’s Central Elections Commission)
- ∴ 34% of voters voted for Hamas
- ASSUMING that vote share was equal by age, AND that the age breakdown was similar in 2006, THEN 13% of the current population voted for Hamas
- ∴ 87% did not vote for Hamas
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