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Thread ID: 9646 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-09-09
2003-09-09 06:01 | User Profile
Which Democracy Do ââ¬â¢Palestiniansââ¬â¢ Most Admire?.. ISRAEL
(Yes, Isreal critics.. itââ¬â¢s "apartheid" Israel who the ââ¬â¢Palestiniansââ¬â¢ most admire.. Good luck trying to get the Arafat/Mazen and co to try and get anything close) and co
**"....Palestinians also worked in Israel and watched Israeli television. They saw that, for its own citizens, the Israeli system had distinct virtues. This is not easy for even ardent Palestinian democrats to acknowledge.
Yet since 1996, Dr. Shikaki has been polling Palestinians about what governments they admire, and every year Israel has been the top performer, at times receiving more than 80 percent approval. The American system has been the next best, followed by the French and then, distantly trailing, the Jordanian and Egyptian..."" **
"....Though the constitution is a work in process, secular and Christian Palestinians seem to be losing one battle: the draft declares Islam to be Palestineââ¬â¢s "official religion," though it adds that "Christianity and all other monotheistic religions shall be equally revered and respected.".."""
[url=http://www.aaiusa.org/news/must_read04_02_03a.htm]http://www.aaiusa.org/news/must_read04_02_03a.htm[/url]
2003-09-10 00:55 | User Profile
The quotes you posted merely demonstrate what kind of government the Palestinians would prefer for their own nation if they could have one. That doesn't mean they like the way Israel treats Palestinians or that Israel is actually a "democracy" with respect to everyone who lives there. Israel is only a democracy as far as Jews are concerned. Sure there are Israelis of Arab ethnicity, but their numbers have always been deliberately kept below a limit so that the Jewish majority always gets its way. Thus, Israel is really an apartheid state. Furthermore, Israel does not respect human rights or international law, and therefore it is a rogue nation.
2003-09-10 18:03 | User Profile
Afraid not Angler.
It means what it says it means.
Palestinians, who see Israeli denocracy daily, prefer it to all others, next-door-Arab, Euro, or American.
Israel has 1 Million Fully enfranchised Arab Citizens in it's 5.8 million people.