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Originally Posted by Ike Bana
As far as the State of Israel is concerned...it is the only democracy in all the middle east.
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Not so fast. Just today, "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday the State of Israel belongs to the Jewish people alone, this in response to a comment by Israeli actress Rotem Sela, who wrote on social media that Israel is a country of all its citizens."
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...lity-1.7003348
This is in a country where ~25% of the population is not Jewish and Christians and Druze serve in the IDF (and the Haredim (ultra-orthodox Jews) don't despite their disproportionate influence on Israeli society).
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Last edited by finnbow; 03-10-2019 at 08:45 PM.
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