Is Israel a democracy?

Question

Yes, they do hold elections, have competing political parties, and appear to have reasonably honest government.

Yes, they have a vigorous free press which can and does fearlessly criticise the government without being shut down.

No, they deny the vote to an underclass, the people who live under Israeli rule in the Occupied Territories, identified by ethnicity - a thoroughly racist stance, an apartheid system.

No, they force people off their property so they can build homes on Palestinian lands which cannot be acquired unless you are Jewish, and they pay subsidies to encourage these squatters ("settlers", if you prefer to use a euphemism.).

Denying citizenship to people actually born there is a racist atrocity. What makes it truly abominable is that they freely grant citizenship to people who were not born there but happen to belong to a preferred ethnic group. Privileges for *ssholes born in Brooklyn, while forcing people born there to leave the country. That's justice? democracy? Huh?

This is not religious discrimination, but is discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, in other words, racism. Many Palestinians are Christians.

Were they there first? Of course they were. The bible tells of the invading israelites having to masacre the "people of the land" so they could steal their land. These people are described in Judges 1 as the Philistines - and where did you think the word "Palestine" comes from?

Zionist possession of the land is based on violebce and tewrrorism, as Yitzhak shamir bragged. If the dispossed people now resort to violenceden atrrorism to try to get their land back, oh that's so awful, sob s

Answer 1

Yes, Israel is a democracy. I think it is only right to deny the vote to non-citizens.

There has never been a Palestinian nation or a Palestinian people. The name Palestine was used by the Romans when they were referring to the area where Israel was; like we refer to the northeast of this country as New England.

There is no such thing as "the occupied territories". God gave this land to Israel many thousands of years ago. The so-called Palestinians lived in Trans-Jordan, belonging to Jordan, an Arab nation. Jordan kicked them out. No other Arab nation wanted them because they were total scum. That is when they made up the story of a nation of Palestine.

Learn history so you won't look so stupid on here,

By the way, Arafat was born in Egypt. Really makes him a Palestinian doesn't it

Answer 2

The "Palestinian" criminals aren't Israeli citizens, and they don't want to be. Is there any country that allows non-citizens to vote?

Answer 3

Democracy my a*ss, they shoot protesters, they gas protesters, they assassinate whoever looks at them funny, they usher in extremists and radicals... funny kind of democracy!

edit: to be honest, it's not fair to say so; they're an artificial state born and inflated by guns and ammo. Democracy has always been a western-styled ideology - and appealing only to westerners

Answer 4

I think of Israel as more of a Theocracy, but they are more democratic then most of their unfriendly neighbors in the region.