People in democracies get to vote for their government- they’re not put under military control because of their religion or ethnicity..
People in democracies get the same rights regardless of their religion or ethnicity.
Democracies don’t intern large numbers of people for prolonged periods without trail.
Democracies respect the rule of law.
Democracies don’t engage in state sponsored land grabs.
Democracies don’t carry out genocides. And make no mistake, this is a genocide.
In 2016 the (pro- Israeli) New York Times opined”that Israel will be forced to choose between the two core components of its national identity: Jewish and democratic.
This choice, rather than coming in one decisive moment, would probably play out in many small choices over a process of years. For instance, a 2015 poll by the Israel Democracy Institute found that 74 percent of Jewish Israelis agreed that “decisions crucial to the state on issues of peace and security should be made by a Jewish majority.” That pollster also found that, from 2010 to 2014, Jewish Israelis became much less likely to say that Israel should be “Jewish and democratic,” with growing factions saying that it should be democratic first or, slightly more popular, Jewish first.”
There’s every indication that Israel is a right wing ethno- nationalist state that is determined to annihilate the Palestinians of Gaza. The current Israeli government appears to want to destroy every man, woman and child in Gaza either by means of shooting , bombing, starvation, disease or population transfer so it can finally put the lid on any two state solution and won’t have to deal with the security threat it created encouraging Hamas instead of democratic alternatives.