No, they are a real Democracy where human rights mean something.
Of course they're a democracy....Where did I say they weren't?
They do all that to their own citizens?
That's the point, isn't it? You said HUMAN rights, not ISRAELI rights. So if Israel treats HUMAN Rights of Palestians (who are still human, correct?) with contempt, they aren't a democracy by YOUR STATED DEFINITION.
No, we need to get off of oil and stop messing around in the middle east over fights that have nothing to do with us and have been going on long before we got there.
Get off oil is a liberal pipe-dream.
I'm sure that's what they keep telling you, and you keep buying it.
Hey, during World War II, Germany's supply of oil was cut off when we bombed the snot out of production facilities in Romania. Did the Germans give up.
Nope. they built plants that could make aviation grade fuel out of coal, which htey had plenty of. In the 1940's.
So please, please please don't tell me that we can't get off oil if we really wanted to.