Posted on 03/26/2015 7:45:21 AM PDT by Dave346
The pundit class in the U.S. and much of the rest of the world is still seething over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's electoral triumph last week.
On Monday, Dan Perry at the Associated Press took that hysteria to a new level, in effect attempting to discredit Bibi's win by writing that, after all, it may not really be correct to call Israel a democracy. That's because "Palestinians" who are in the occupied territories — whose leaders, and more than likely a majority of its residents would vote to expel all Jews from Israel in a heartbeat if they could — can't vote (bolds are mine):
AP ANALYSIS: IS ISRAEL DEMOCRATIC? NOT SO CLEAR
Is Israel a democracy? The answer is not so straightforward, and it increasingly matters given the diplomatic fallout over hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu's reelection last week.
... (Israel's) its claim to be the only true democracy in the Middle East has been key to its branding and its vitally important claim on U.S. military, diplomatic and financial support. Israel's elections, from campaign rules to vote counts, are indeed not suspect.
But with the occupation of the West Bank grinding on toward the half-century mark, and with Netanyahu's election-day suggestion that no change is imminent, hard questions arise.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
occupation of the West Bank
AP of course takes one side but I see the occupation of the West Bank as the taking away of Sumeria and Judah form the people of God.
So what exactly is sacrosanct about democracy... it, in and of itself, does not ensure fairness or stability. It can produce a lopsided social structure where majority rules which can even lead to the elimination of opposition if so inclined. Democracy for me but not for thee if you are not my kind...
The putrid stench of the 1930’s is getting stronger and stronger.
boy, the lamestreams sure got a checklist of anti-Israel talking points to drop on the US public day by day, didn’t they?
Obama’s press corpse is cranking out the propaganda day and night
Have they started a journalist exchange program with North Korea yet? To perfect techniques of instilling regime messages into the minds and hearts of the people
do you really really want to ask that?
> Is there a country allows non-citizens to vote in their elections?
Yes. That would be the United States.
Not officially, of course. =wink= =wink=
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