one inconsistency among people with views, well, views like mine, is that we think we have learned you can’t export democracy at the point of a gun, but when we solutionize about Israel/Palestine we kind of assume we can. Israel should vouchsafe for Palestinians in Gaza a democratic state with sovereign control of its borders. but in 2006 elections in Gaza didn’t portend ongoing democracy. does Israel have the ability to encourage democracy and just cynically not, or do they just not have a way?