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[accy]

I mean it pales into comparison with shooting rockets at children, but banning Arab parties from competing in the elections is really a new low. Apparently thought the Israeli supreme court has a history of overturning these

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[_bigjobbies_]

a beacon of democracy

[accy]

a beacon of democracy

If by that you mean they've set democracy on fire, I agree ;-)

[loic]

BUT THEYRE THE ONLY DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST(tm)

I don't see the issue though. They're a state defined along ethnic lines. Different laws and rights apply to different ethnicities. We just need to get used to treating Israel like a fundamentally racist state.

Israel is a pleasant place to visit, but the institutional racism is a bit hard to deal with.

[accy]

I've often wondered if Israel could actually survive having it's neighbours leave it alone.

[loic]

No, like most racist states they need a scapegoat to explain away their problems. They'd start cracking down harder on their internal non-jewish minorities (Arabs - Christian, Druze, Muslim) and then jewish minorities (Arab, African, new Russian immigrants).