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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?

I guess Mr. Raja is encouraging the Isreali governmnet to annex Judea
and Samaria and the Gaza strip, He can readily join the Tehiya party
in Isreal which support this idea. Isreal is a democracy because
anybody living in its territory can vote and that's include the Arabs 
in Israel and the Arabs of East Jerusalem and the Gollan citizens.

It was pointed out that America holds many territories and that these 
people cannot vote in the Presidential elections. So Israel is in this
respect as much a democracy as the USA. 

Israel has given the Arab citizens of the WB and Gaza the right to 
appeal to the Israeli High court although it doesn't have to by law
(and this is to the complete advantage of the citizens there).

David.
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