[cookcounty]

"Israel sounds more like a theocracy to me."

[[[ Being a deep thinker, can you share with us one fact about Israel that gets you to that conclusion.? ]]]

Government offices are closed on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

Well if closing government offices on a religious holiday makes a nation a theocracy, then Cuba is the only non-theocracy in the western hemisphere. Indeed, the only non-theocracies (and presumambly on Aloutte's list of preferred governments) would be Cuba, China, Viet Nam and North Korea.

[LoisHunt]

If Jews from Russia have a "right of return" to a country their ancestors haven't lived in for many centuries but Muslims who lived on that land in their own lifetimes can't live there any more, thats a theocracy. I mean, what other justification is there but religion? Don't voting rights differ, too?