Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Israel - Undemocratic. Bans Arab parties.

RedBedHead: Israel Bans Arab Parties, Supports Ethnic Cleansing
Perhaps it shouldn’t be any surprise given the present wholesale slaughter but then Israel likes to tell the world, particularly Europe and North America that they’re the only democratic country in a region ruled by despots and hereditary monarchs.
It makes it all the more interesting then that Israel’s Central Electoral Committee has just banned Arab parties. Mixed parties, like the Communist Party, are OK. Jewish parties are OK. But those Arabs – well, they’re traitors, aren’t they?

“Parliament spokesman Giora Pordes said the election committee voted overwhelmingly in favor of the motion, accusing the country's Arab parties of incitement, supporting terrorist groups and refusing to recognize Israel's right to exist.”

The motion was put forward by a far-right party. That it won support amongst Israel’s mainstream parties shows just how far Israel’s colonialism has caused the nation’s political consciousness to degenerate towards ethnic authoritarianism.
But then, the plan from the beginning has always been to “spirit the penniless Arab population” across the border and out of Israel, as Zionism’s founder Theodor Herzl put it. And that’s still the attitude today.
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... the number of people living under Israeli rule at the present is only
slightly more than 50% Jewish. Fortunately for the “democratic, Jewish”
state the majority of Palestinians under their rule have no vote, no
civil rights and don’t even have independent control of their tax
collection.
Not very democratic.
However, in Gaza there is a
thriving democracy. In 2006, under the watch of international monitors
and the basis of one-person, one-vote, the population of the Gaza Strip
elected Hamas as the majority party in their Legislative Assembly.
Perhaps that example of democracy at work is part of what Israel wants to eliminate.


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