A liberal democracy in which news from Gaza is censored, in which Arabs can't even buy a lot of the land and in which an Apartheid system exists in the Occupied Territories? Your "liberal democracy" is a sham.
Furthermore, as I stated in my above post, with plenty of documented evidence to back it up, the Israelis simply terrorise the Occupied Territories in other ways.
Unfortunately for you, there doesn't exist a false dichotomy between a totalitarian Islamic state and Israel. Typical Bush-style 'logic'.
No, they don't. 66 Israeli soldiers were killed, justly, in the 2014 Gaza Massacre. 5 Israeli civilians were killed. These soldiers are not innocent: the Israelis have an obligation, under international law, to withdraw from the Occupied Territories, including Gaza, while the Palestinians have the right to resist occupation, including through attacks on the Israeli military at any time, any place. Incidentally, Hamas didn't fire a single rocket into Israel from the 2012 ceasefire, whilst Israel had broken the ceasefire on numerous occasions.
Again, not all of its opponents are "jihadists". And, it's not a "liberal democracy", not that a liberal democracy is even anywhere close to perfect (see social democracy for a superior model).
And, whether or not Israel's intent was to target civilians, the evidence I, and others, have presented would require that you don't "support" any side, but rather support a peaceful two-state solution, call on both Israel and Hamas to end their crimes and support the current leadership in Palestine which is not Hamas-based, but rather secularist. Unfortunately, black-and-white thinking apparently still prevails.
Somehow, it seems to me that even if Hamas did get voted out in another free and fair election, you'd still support Israel's crimes, seeing as even now, you fail to criticise the illegal Israeli settlements, the demolition of Palestinian homes, the discriminatory practices such as the water allocation discrimination that we see in the Occupied Territories, and of course the systematic war crimes which I've documented above.
Your totalitarian mindset has been put on show again. Putting the word election in scarequotes despite the fact that independent observers judged it to be free and fair, with the only significant problems coming from Israel itself who tried to disrupt the election?
Just like Israel and the West, you denounce any election in which the people vote "the wrong way", the product of which has been US-backed juntas, dictatorships and genocides. People generally go to more extreme parties when their land has been occupied and stolen for decades, with excuse after excuse being made as to why the occupation cannot end: the "Islamist threat" is just another of these pathetic excuses.
You do not support democracy, and nor do your "liberal democracies".
And, by the way, a Palestinian general election was
due to be held last year. Unfortunately, the "liberal democracy" started a conflict which led to the devastation of the Gaza Strip.