Any State designed to favor one race/religion above all others is inherently undemocratic.
Israel favors Jews above all others.
So why do you defend Israel?
Are you anxious for the Second Coming?
Israel was designed to guarantee equal rights to all of its citizens. In all countries, despite legal guarantees of equal rights, minorities often feel and sometimes are disadvantaged, and Israel is no exception here, but Israel has done a better job than most democracies in providing and protecting equal rights for its minorities. Not only is Arabic an official language of Israel and every Knesset since the founding of the state had Arab Israeli members, but Arab Israelis are better represented in proportion to their percentage of the population in the Knesset than African Americans are in the US Congress or than minorities are in the British or French parliaments.
Arab Israelis have been ministers in several Israeli governments, have risen to high ranks in the police and IDF and in many government ministries, have been ambassadors and have held seats on the Supreme Court. They are guaranteed by law seats on the boards of directors of government owned corporation in proportion to their numbers in the population.
No country is more vigilant in not only protecting equal rights for its minorities, but in trying to provide equal opportunities for them, and no country is more self critical of its failures in these areas. Because recent studies showed lower levels of academic achievement for most Arab Israelis who chose to attend Arab language schools, funding regulations have been changed so that in the future more money will be spent per capita on Arab Israeli school children than on other Israeli children. Because of a recent study that showed Arab Israelis are under represented in academia, Israel's colleges and universities now have outreach programs that attempt to entice qualified Arab Israelis to choose an academic career.
Israel has a distinctly Jewish character precisely because it is a democracy and has a large Jewish majority, just as the US has a distinctly Christian character because it is a democracy that has a large Christian majority. There is no rational basis for claiming Israel is not a democracy just because its sabbath is on Saturday.
The US doesn't encourage Christians from around the world to immigrate and attain citizenship based solely on religion.
The US doesn't distinguish between nationality and citizenship in the same way Israel does.
The US doesn't formalize different levels of citizenship as the Jewish state allegedly does:
"Class 'A' citizenship : Jews.
"Privileged access to the material resources of the State and the social as well as the welfare services of the State.
Are able to utilize the 93 per cent of pre-1967 Israel, controlled by the Land Agency. Note that no-one can actually purchase the Agency land and that it
is leased to Jews only.
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Class 'B' citizenship : Non Jews/Arabs.
"Taxpayers and citizens with voting rights.
Are denied the right to utilize the 93 per cent of pre-1967 Israel controlled by the Land Agency. They are also denied equal access to water and social and welfare services. Are generally not permitted to serve in the military which means they are automatically denied the many social and welfare services available to those who complete compulsory (for Jews) military service.
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Class 'C' citizenship : Non Jews/Arabs.
"Taxpayers and citizens with voting rights, but classified as 'absentees'. Comprises some 200,000 persons.
Are denied the right to utilize property in 93 per cent of pre-1967 Israel. They are also denied equal access to water and social and welfare services.
They have also been denied all rights to their own property (lands, houses, corporations, shares, bank accounts, bank safes, etc.) that they owned until confiscated by the Jewish state. This theft was made 'legal' by the Absentees Property Law of 1950.
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Class 'D' citizenship : Non Jews/Arabs.
"Taxpayers, but without voting rights. Comprises some 3,000,000 persons. Are also denied the right to utilize or buy property anywhere in pre-1967 Israel. Have no access to social and welfare services. Many (mostly those who once lived in pre-1967 Israel) have had all their property confiscated by the Jewish state without compensation and have been forced to live in ghettos spread throughout two areas that today resemble concentration camps.
"Information From 'Israel: An Apartheid State' (Zed Books, London and New Jersey, 1987) by Uri Davis."
Israeli Apartheid.