By the bye Shaw does holding elections on a regular basis count towards any sort of indication that a country is democratic? If so (And I believe that it is so) we know that Israel has held elections in:
1949; 1951; 1955; 1959; 1961; 1965; 1969; 1973; 1977; 1981; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 1999; 2003; 2006; 2009; 2013; 2015 - lowest voter turnout was 63.5% highest voter turnout was 86.9% - Guess what Shaw during those elections different political parties won and took office all quite peacefully (Nobody flying off the roofs of seven storey buildings)

Now how does that compare to your "Palestinian" pals track record? Doesn't go back as far does it Shaw because they were under Jordanian and Egyptian occupation between 1948 and 1967. Then they seem to have had a bit of a holiday between 1967 and 1994 - they didn't need elections during that period did they because they were being "led" by Tosser Arafat who was in the process of milking his "poor Palestinians" for every cent he could lay his hands on (Just like his uncle had done before him). By the 1990s Arafat had lost his most constant backers so the "two-state" myth was pursued in order to wrest more cash out of the international community (The pro-Palestinian bunch on this forum have yet to so me a Hamas, Hezbollah or Fatah map showing the borders of this sought after and desired Two-State solution - mind you those involved haven't even shown it to the UN). So onto these elections, they had one to kick-off the proceedings in 1994, then another in 1996. After that there was a bit of a hiatus until 2006 and then they just seemed to have abandoned the exercise.

So Shaw name one country in the region that even remotely measures up to Israel by any metric used to describe a democracy.