Can Israel be Considered a Democracy?

[IRONm@N]

Israel is called, democracy, but the government is ruled by a few families who run the top government positions, these elite individual number less than 20 ppl, so we got this 5 or 10 men revolving around the top position of the government and the rest of the ppl can't get it in or break the cieling. I think they need their own revolution from these individuals who got Israel on lock:

-Benjamin Netanyahu: current prime minister, also serves as the current Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel. He was also the Prime Minister from June 1996 to July 1999.

-Ehud Barak: served as Prime Minister from 1999 until 2001. leader of the Labor Party until January 2011 and holds the posts of Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister in Binyamin Netanyahu's government.served as head of Aman, the Military Intelligence Directorate (1983–1985), head of Central Command (1986–1987) and Deputy Chief of the General Staff (1987–1991). He served as Chief of the General Staff between 1 April 1991 and 1 January 1995.

-Ariel Sharon: served as Israel’s 11th Prime Minister. Defence Minister, Minister for Trade and Industry (1984—1990), and Minister of Housing Construction (1990—1992). In the Knesset, Minister of Agriculture, he was member of the Foreign Affairs and Defence committee from (1990–1992) and Chairman of the committee overseeing Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union.

-Ehud Olmert:former Prime Minister,mayor of Jerusalem, Interim Prime Minister, member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and served on the Finance, Education and Defense Budget Committees.minority affairs between 1988 and 1990, and as Minister of Health from 1990 until 1992.appointed as Designated Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor. From 2003 to 2004, he also served as Minister of Communications and Minister for Welfare.

-Shimon Peres: currently President of Israel, then served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel. Interim Prime Minister, Deputy Director-General of Defense in 1952, and Director-General in 1953 through 1959, appointed Minister of Immigrant Absorption and in 1970 became Minister of Transportation and Communications. In 1974, after a period as Information Minister, he was appointed Minister of Defense in the Yitzhak Rabin government, In 1986 he became foreign minister,Peres served as Vice Premier and Minister of Finance, Minister of Regional Co-operation.
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[ToughGong]

Isreal is an apartheid State,just like South Africa was pre-Mandelas' release
They have Jewish-only settlements, separate roads, military checkpoints, discriminatory marriage law.use of Palestinians as cheap labour, Palestinian West Bank enclaves,(like the old SA townships) inequities in infrastructure, legal rights, and access to land.
This exactly is what labeled SA an aparthied State

[Basra-]

It doesnt really matter to the israelis. As long as there is a jew prime minister and a jew government--- All is.....Shalom mozzletoff.....

[DR-YALAXOOW]

i agree whit seemeyer, isreal is racist AND apartheid STATE ALSO most un-democratic country in the world. NORTH KOREA IS MORE DEMOCRATIC THAN APRTHIED COUNTRY OF ISREAL.

NACALATU ALLAH ISREAL WASAQDA

[KeligiiJabhad]

Israel has a Zero Democracy as I see it. And like you said, it's run and owned by several men. The rest of the civilians can therefore be depicted as their soldiers who actually can't go against the wishes of those few elite individuals that control every thing.

[Shift]

For the sake of peace i would like to say yes,but they make it hard.Not only is it not democratic its a NATZI state that is doomed and will fail in the end.

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

Did any of you watch the Lois Theroux thing about the far-right israeli settlers? Lol the funniest bit was when the christains said it was god's will to serve the jews because they are the chosen people. I laughed my head off and felt so embarrassed for them. Even yahuuddaa la yaabtey.

[ToughGong]

Did any of you watch the Lois Theroux thing about the far-right israeli settlers? Lol the funniest bit was when the christains said it was god's will to serve the jews because they are the chosen people. I laughed my head off and felt so embarrassed for them. Even yahuuddaa la yaabtey.

Yeah,and yet the Jews considered them unclean and wouldn't let them enter the wine distilary

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

Did any of you watch the Lois Theroux thing about the far-right israeli settlers? Lol the funniest bit was when the christains said it was god's will to serve the jews because they are the chosen people. I laughed my head off and felt so embarrassed for them. Even yahuuddaa la yaabtey.

Yeah,and yet the Jews considered them unclean and wouldn't let them enter the wine distilary

Yeah that was pretty sad. Shaw Naziska yagaa ba ka daran.

This master slave relationship is similar to the one between the US and Israel. Pathetic . The muslim world is getting terrorised by the adoontii yuhuudda. .

[IRONm@N]

Israel is one of the most dangerous countries in the world, because of their extreme policies, policies like:

The Samson Option: is a term used to describe Israel’s alleged deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a “last resort” against nations whose military attacks threaten its existence, and possibly against other targets as wellVan Creveld was quoted "I consider it all hopeless at this point. ... We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen, before Israel goes under." He quoted General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."


Project Daniel: was a 2003 Israeli project, commissioned to assess the threat to the nation of Israel from other states in the Middle EastThe recommendations of the report were that Israel should do anything possible to prevent an anti-Israeli coalition from being formed, and from that coalition gaining control of WMDs. It suggested Israel should retain the option of carrying out preemptive strikes, describing them as 'anticipatory self-defense'. The strikes would be a combination of air strikes and selective covert operations by ground forces at certain critical (and publicly un-named) locations.

The Dahiya doctrine: refers to asymmetric warfare in an urban setting in which a conventional army targets civilian infrastructure used by terroristsThe 2009 Goldstone report quoted IDF Northern Command Chief Gadi Eisenkot, who said, "What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on. We will apply disproportionate force on it and cause great damage and destruction there. From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases. [...] This is not a recommendation. This is a plan. And it has been approved-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
These are policies of Israel government, calling for mass genocide and retaliation in case threaten! and they trust this country, with Nuclear? saying that they will take down the world with them, if attacked.