Here is the difference: in March 2019, as peaceful protesters in Gaza took to the streets to demonstrate against deteriorating economic conditions, Hamas responded with vicious beatings, arbitrary arrests and torture. This is how the Islamist regime routinely deals with dissidence.
Now look at Israel. As truly corrosive a leader as Benjamin Netanyahu has been, the Jewish state remains a democracy. And one of the reasons that we can be sure of this is that, for seven months earlier this year, hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens protested against his dreadful judicial reforms.
