Re: Schmidling is simply wrong.

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From: Jack Schmidling
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 02:56

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In article <15hpt4INN4g0@agate.berkeley.edu> dan@jonas.berkeley.edu (dan graves) writes:
>In article <26138@life.ai.mit.edu>, gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Basalat Ali Raja) writes:
>|> One cannot help but ask...  Israel is the only democracy in the middle
>|> east?  How many of the Palestinians whose very lives and destiny are
>|> directly controlled by the Zionist government in Jerusalem have had a
>|> chance to vote against or in favour of this government?
>|> 
>|> Spare me the lawyer's answers, that these people are immigrants, or
>|> refugees or whatever.  They have been there for generations, in many
>|> cases much longer than their Jewish neighbours who CAN vote.  And yet
>|> you claim that Israel is a democracy?  Only if you accept as a
>|> corollary that the Palestinians are not human.  Will you do that?
>
>This is utter  crap.  All Arabs that live in Israel proper can
>vote and there are Arab members of the Knesset.   This means
>that Israel is a democracy in  every sense of the word.

ARF says:

Aside from evading his point about 3 million Palestinians under occupation
who have no rights at all,  tell us how many Arabs are in the Government.
the Kennesset doesn't count.

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From: arf@ddsw1.mcs.com (Jack Schmidling)
Subject: Re: Schmidling is simply wrong.
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