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| | Palestinian Elections - 2005 |
 | | Palestinian elections officials estimate 120,000 eligible voters in East Jerusalem but said it was impossible to know because in September, when Palestinians were registering to vote, Israeli Special Forces accompanied by intelligence agents raided and closed down several registration centers in East Jerusalem. |
 | | Palestinians hope that the forthcoming presidential election will provide the basis for a new Palestinian democratic political system, especially if it is followed by legislative elections, which the Palestinians hope to hold in March. |
 | | Elections, in short, will take place while Israel still occupies most towns and villages in the West Bank; while it continues actively dispossessing and ethnically cleansing innocent Palestinians; with killings, house demolitions, arbitrary arrests, an increase in nerve-wracking flying checkpoints, and other daily excesses and atrocities against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. |
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