You don't get to call yourself a "Democracy" when only one group gets to vote.
If Israel were a democracy, it vote itself out of existance because half the population doesn't want to be "Israel".
Having perused this thread a bit, I would like to comment on several responses. Israel is a democracy and is comprised of Muslims, Christians and Jews and others religions. Freedom of religion is in its constitution - ( the population bomb is a concern to many Jewish supporters). All groups get to vote.
Adolf Hitler nixed the Madagascar Plan... per the wiki article in 1938 if memory serves me right. Evidently they relied on Britians' fleet of vessels to move the Jews of Europe to Madagascar.... which was a French colony under Vischy rule. I've read articles where Adolf Eichman visited Israel in order to try and get Zionists there to accept European Jews... the Zionists didn't want anything to do with the European Jews.. leading a prominent Jeewish leader to say " One cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Europe."- I believe.
More Jews lived in peace under the regime of Saddam Hussien in Bagdad than there is lived in Bagdad today under US domination... wonder why? How many Jews live in Tehran? Under the rule of Ahmadinejad? So democracy is the problem for the remaning nations of the ME... not that Jews live in Israel... as most people believe.
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