This is an Israeli society where all parties benefit from describing who will punish and who will subjugate and who will oppress Palestinians the most and the most harshly.

Welcome to deconstructed. I'm Maddie Hussain. Lindsey Graham once compared picking between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz to having to choose between being poisoned or being shot.

I wonder if Palestinians feel that way this week after the latest Israeli election results which could see racist warmonger Benjamin Netanyahu replaced by yet another racist warmonger opposition leader General Benny Gantz.

The differences that they have in terms of policy towards Palestinians are absolutely non-existent.

This is my guest today, the Palestinian-American lawyer, author and activist Nora Erikaat. The big question I want to ask her is regardless of all these non-stop elections, is Israel and a part-type state?

Is Benjamin Netanyahu Israel's longest serving Prime Minister and proud, unabashed, racist on his way out of office? At this moment in time, as I'm speaking to you, it does seem to look that way.

Israel is on edge this morning as the results come in showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponent deadlocked.

Several early exit polls suggest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reelection bid might fall short.

Israel's longest serving Prime Minister might end up being replaced by a political newcomer.

On Tuesday, Israel held its second election in less than six months. Its fourth election in just six years.

The Israelis seem to have gotten into the habit of going to the polls a lot. And they often, of course, pat themselves on the back for being the only democracy in the region, as if Tunisia and Lebanon just don't exist.

And perhaps more crucially and more offensively, as if the Palestinians in the occupied territories don't exist.

Remember, six and a half million Jewish Israelis have the right to vote in Israeli elections. That includes 600,000 Jewish settlers living illegally in settlements across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

In addition to those six and a half million Jewish Israelis, one and a half million Palestinian citizens of Israel, living in Israel proper, are able to vote too.

But five million Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza in territories occupied and colonized by the Israelis for more than 50 years now are not allowed to vote in Israeli elections.

Five million, which means that less than a quarter of the Palestinians who live in that disputed part of the world, who live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, whether in Israel proper or the occupied territories, whose everyday lives are controlled by Israel.

And have been for decades now, only a quarter of them have a say over which political party or Prime Minister controls their lives.

The vast majority of Palestinians don't get a say. Don't get a vote. There's a word for that, isn't there?

As for the Palestinian citizens of Israel who do get to vote, it's worth pointing out two things.

Number one, pretty much every independent study and expert agrees that yes they have the right to vote, but they're also treated as second-class citizens and subjected to a raft of discriminatory laws and policies from where they can live to who they can marry.

In fact, for the first 18 years of Israel's existence, right up until 1966, for the first quarter of Israel's existence as a state, Palestinian citizens were forced to live under military rule, under martial law.

And number two, yes, Palestinian parties do take part in Israeli elections and get elected to the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset.

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