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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous

PP, please list for me the democracies in the middle east?[/quote]
Iran is closer than Israel. Israel is not a western country and does not share the values of the west.[/quote]

You keep saying that but have no support for it.

Israel is a democracy. It has open elections. There are arabs, muslims and christians serving in government. It has freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion. Women are free and equal, gays have rights and can serve in the military. It has freedom of commerce, investment in education, a free market.

What are the "western values" it does not share?[/quote]

Democracy like pre-Civil Rights U.S. maybe.  Separate housing, separate security standards, illegal housing in the West Bank.   As far as freedom of the press, it blocked an Israeli radio station from running an ad from a local human rights group B’Tselem, that named hundreds of the dead Palestinian children.  Muslims and Jews can't intermarry.  Schools are segregated by language the way our schools used to be segregated by race, and Arabic schools are significantly inferior, even though they are government run.  You can't have equal rights in a religious state.  You just can't.  [/quote]

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