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Originally Posted by Mindfulcoug
Its been a while since I posted here. The board used to LOVE Israel a lot and it used to rub “ Israel is the only democracy in the middle east ” into my face a lot.
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I consider them a democracy. With a few caveats:
1. Their human rights record is the lousiest for a liberal democracy.
2. They are an ethnostate. Nothing wrong with that, but that's not what the USA is.
3. The majority of their population comes from countries without a strong democratic tradition , i.e., Middle East and Soviety Union.