Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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<<My point is that all the people in the land claimed by Israel are not allowed to vote so Israel is not a democracy. That is down to the definition of democracy, not me telling Israel what to do.>>
Actually, I don't think that there is a democracy in the world by your definition. It is not "all the people in the land claimed by" XXX, it is all of the eligible citizens.

If the Israeli Arabs had not been misled in the 1996 elections and had voted for Peres as their true interests dictated (if they were really interested in peace), then Netanyahu wouldn't have won that election, and [perhaps] things would be very different now. That is presuming of course that Arafat is sincere when he says in English that he accepts the existence of Israel. This may be an erroneous assumption.