... and Apartheid South Africa was one of the only countries in Africa with regular election without electoral fraud. There was still some other (one major one specifict) elements in that state, which meant supporting it, at some point became unacceptable.
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Us and Israel have too much to defend in these times to drop one another. They're our strongest ally and as far as I'm concerned they're really the only other country that matters in this world.
Name one thing that Israel has done for the United States.
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Drop the only democracy in the Middle East? Please.
Lebanon? Turkey? Azerbaijan?