montelatici
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I have no problem with you. You make it clear that Israel is not a democracy and that it is a theocracy.
If that was the situation, then no Muslim figure was to participate in the Knesset.
You realize and know that what you say isn't true, yet you keep repeating it in pure intent to provoke. That's called trollism.
There were non-whites in the parliament of South Africa, as long as they agreed to support white rule and the white state. No one considered it a full democracy, it was a racial/ethnic democracy, based on white rule.
To claim Israel is not a theocratic democracy is ridiculous. Israelis and their supporters cannot contemplate any other rule but the rule by people of the Jewish religion.
Facts are facts. Why deny them?
In addition, no country that bases citizenship on religious affiliation (e.g. right of return), holds access to land on a religious basis among other can be considered secular.
To you, anyone who states the facts which disagree with your propaganda is a troll. In fact, you are the troll constantly parroting Zionist/Israeli propaganda.
As far as Israel, even those that praise and support Israel and hold it up as an example, know it is a theocratic democracy.
"Egyptians can look to Israel as an example of a mature theocratic democracy. True, most Israelis (and, indeed, most Jews) do not think of Israel as a theocratic democracy—but take a closer look.
Nachman ben Yehuda, in his recently published Theocratic Democracy, makes a compelling case. Judaism has official status in Israel through its monopoly on the legalization of marriage and divorce. Moreover, it’s Orthodox Judaism that enjoys special status, controls the institutions of the Chief Rabbinates, and makes and enforces law on marriage and divorce. Other branches of Judaism—the Conservative and Reform wings—enjoy no comparable status. There is not even token recognition in law of religious pluralism for Jewish citizens.....Special treatment of ultra-Orthodox Jews carries over to the most basic demand of the state on its citizens: military service. Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, exempted those who studied in yeshivot from compulsory military service.....Theocratic democracies are all about balance. How much space they make for democratic rights determines the course of their future. In Israel, there is significant space. But those who ignore the theocratic elements of Israel’s democracy do so at their peril."
How To Build A Theocratic Democracy - The Daily Beast
