"No election will be genuine elections as long as Israeli troops are present," he said.
The staging of genuine elections in countries that have been denied them for decades is significant.
But full and genuine democratic elections in either country might well result in strongly anti-American governments.
But for many South Koreans that was jumping too far ahead as they took part in their first genuine presidential election since 1971.
That's going to be tonight's entertainment, folks, a genuine democratic election.
The guiding principle should be the voters' basic right to a genuine election.
One year later, Iraqis voted in the country's first genuine elections.
They could respond, that is, by suggesting ways to assure a genuine election looking toward negotiation.
The current leader of Belarus would never win genuine free elections.
Only when that has happened can genuine elections be held.