KaiserDave
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« on: January 17, 2024, 02:53:18 PM » |
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Within the Israeli academic sphere, there are generally three schools of thought
1. That Israel is a "democracy with flaws", a liberal democracy with significant issues (outsized role of the military/intelligence sphere, the occupation of the West Bank, social discrimination against Arabs)
2. That Israel is an "ethnic democracy", a liberal democracy that is primarily designed to service a specific ethnic group and exclude outsiders from power (but that does not deny them legal rights)
3. That Israel is an "ethnocracy", that Israel is NOT a liberal democracy and that its democratic institutions are a shallow facade for domination and control
This of course, an oversimplification. I err towards 2.
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