
Let us assume for a moment that we know very little about democracy and ask: which "democracy" allows the reduction of 90% of its citizens to under 15% during the war of Nakba? The answer is simple: only rotten fascists would cheer and approve of such a "democracy." It should be noted that to this date, Palestinians still own over 94% of the lands (who still have their land deeds to prove ownership), and their use of the lands has been severely limited (even to Palestinians who are Israeli citizens) since the war of Nakba. The earlier facts were all sourced directly from UN's website and from the British Mandate's primary sources. The documents were written in simple English, thus, please be free to verify.
If the earlier simple facts didn't flip your understanding of the "Jewish state," and you still think Israel is a "democracy" just because its Palestinian citizens can vote; we ask you to watch Professor John Mearsheimer for less than two minutes articulating our main point:
If you still consider the Israeli system to be a "democracy," please stay tuned. We shall prove the opposite from Israeli and Zionist sources.
There is no denying the fact that autocratic, oppressive, and undemocratic regimes mainly rule the Middle East. On the other hand, the majority of these repressive regimes were primarily founded and funded based on Israeli and American wishes. It should be noted that the most famous revolts in the Middle East have been ruthlessly crushed by American puppet regimes (whom the West often refers to as "Moderate regimes") in the area. The regimes in Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Hashemite Kingdom, Lebanon (before the civil war), Arab Gulf States, Morocco, Iran (before the Islamic revolution), Turkey, ... etc., were all funded and directed by the United States of America; the land of the free and the home of the brave. Sadly, many of the so-called "moderate regimes" are ten times more accountable to Uncle Sam than to their public (see how Senator Tom Cotton articulated our point). Ironically, if democracy truly serves Israel's national interests in the region, then maybe it should direct its powerful lobby in Washington, AIPAC, to start lobbying on behalf of the oppressed in the Middle East; after all, promoting "democracy is the key" to lasting peace in the Middle East? Again, we rely on Professor John Mearsheimer to make our point in under 60 seconds. Hang on to your seat for a short dose of real politics:

It is worth noting that soon after the 1948 war, the undemocratic Arab regimes were the central factor in protecting the newly emerging "Jewish state;" which is a fact that continues to this date. Any form of organized local resistance against Israel, similar to Hizbullah's in southern Lebanon, was ruthlessly dealt with in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Many of Israel's so-called "moderate" Arab neighbors transplanted most Palestinian refugee camps inland away from the Israeli borders to curb the so-called Palestinian "infiltration" [or return] back to their homes in Israel. The so-called "Infiltration Problem," which faced Israel between 1949 and 1955, had become the most pressing and expensive challenge to face the newly emerging "Jewish state."
In layman's terms, it's not the presence but the absence of democracy that significantly serves the Israeli interests in the region, and based on that, the United States has systematically shored up these unpopular regimes against the wishes of the people (i.e., the Hashemite Kings in Jordan, the Saudi Kings in Arabia, Sisi or Mubarak of Egypt, Saddam Hussein in Iraq before the Gulf War, and the Emirates in the Gulf States), and undermined the popularly elected governments (i.e., toppling Musadiq in Iran in the early 1950s, invading Lebanon in the late 1950s, shoring up the Hashemites in Jordan in the late 1950s, and undermining Nasser in Egypt).
It's rarely questioned by many Israelis and Zionists how the 10% Jewish minority of citizens became the majority just within a few months in 1948. Since the inception of Zionism, its leaders have been keen on creating a "Jewish state" based on a "Jewish majority" by mass immigration of Jews to Palestine, primarily European Jews fleeing from anti-Semitic Tsarist Russia and Nazi Germany. When a "Jewish majority" was impossible to achieve, based on Jewish immigration and natural growth, Zionist leaders (such as Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and Chaim Weizmann) concluded that "population transfer" was the only solution to what they referred to as the "Arab Problem." Year after year, the plan to ethnically cleanse Palestine of its indigenous people became known as the "transfer solution." David Ben-Gurion, the first Israeli Prime Minister, eloquently articulated the "transfer solution" as the following:
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In a joint meeting between the Jewish Agency Executive and Zionist Action Committee on June 12th, 1938:
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"With compulsory transfer we [would] have a vast area [for settlement] .... I support compulsory transfer. I don't see anything immoral in it." (Righteous Victims p. 144). -
In a speech addressing the Central Committee of the Histadrut on December 30, 1947:
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"In the area allocated to the Jewish State, there are not more than 520,000 Jews and about 350,000 non-Jews, mostly Arabs. Together with the Jews of Jerusalem, the total population of the Jewish State at the time of its establishment will be about one million, including almost 40% non-Jews. Such a [population] composition does not provide a stable basis for a Jewish State. This [demographic] fact must be viewed in all its clarity and acuteness. With such a [population] composition, there cannot even be absolute certainty that control will remain in the hands of the Jewish majority .... There can be no stable and strong Jewish state so long as it has a Jewish majority of only 60%." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 176 & Benny Morris p. 28) -
And on February 8th, 1948, Ben-Gurion also stated to the Mapai Council:
Shukri al-Jamal's Palace in the Talibiya neighborhood in Jerusalem two days after its completion and just before Zionist Jews looted it from him and his family
"From your entry into Jerusalem, through Lifta, Romema [East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood]. . . there are no [Palestinian] Arabs. One hundred percent Jews. Since Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans, it has not been Jewish as it is now. In many [Palestinian] Arab neighborhoods in the west one sees not a single [Palestinian] Arab. I do not assume that this will change. . . . What had happened in Jerusalem. . . . is likely to happen in many parts of the country. . . in the six, eight, or ten months of the campaign there will certainly be great changes in the composition of the population in the country." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 180-181) - In a speech addressing the Zionist Action Committee on April 6th, 1948:
"We will not be able to win the war if we do not, during the war, populate upper and lower, eastern and western Galilee, the Negev and Jerusalem area ..... I believe that war will also bring in its wake a great change in the distribution of Arab population." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 181) - Click here for more "Transfer" (Ethnic Cleansing) quotes from Zionist leaders, all sourced from Zionist sources.
It's not only that the Zionists deemed it necessary to practice ETHNIC CLEANSING to build their vision of "Jewish Democracy", they have also opted to keep many Israelis in the dark by directly censoring what they read, hear, and see in the Israeli media. Martin Van Creveld (the renowned Israeli military strategist and historian) eloquently described Israeli-controlled censorship as follows:
- "The [Israeli military] censor exercises draconian power over the content in the media, licenses newspapers, and fines and suspends newspapers if, in his view, they have violated secrecy. He does not have to explain the reasons for his decision; indeed, one paragraph in the law obliges newspapers to publish free ads by military censor denying or correcting information that papers themselves published. . . . Thus one of the [Israeli military] censor's main functions is to keep Israelis ignorant of what everybody else knows." (The Sword And The Olive, p. 110)
- "By this time [referring to the period before the October war in 1973], Israel's system of media self-censorship had begun to backfire. .... the media, voluntarily refraining from publishing the news, helped the IDF in its own assessment [that Arabs are incapable of going to war] and put the public to sleep." (The Sword And The Olive, p. 223)
For the moment, let's assume that the above facts, arguments, and quotes are nonsense to the average Israeli and Zionist, and let's ask the following questions:
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Are you aware that 97% of Israel's lands are open for development for "Jewish people" only? It should be noted that to this date, the UN still shows on its website that Palestinians own 94% of the land!
Palestinian prisoners were used as tools to loot Haifa's Palestinian shop in April 1948
- Are you aware that the Israeli-Palestinian minority (who are close to a quarter of Israel's citizens) are restricted to 3% of the land?
The implementation of these apartheid policies resulted in disenfranchising a fifth of the Israeli population, who mostly continue to live in segregated, gated, and overcrowded ghettos that are plagued with a high unemployment rate and suffer from a lack of basic services. There are over forty unrecognized Palestinian-Israeli villages (within the "Green Line") that receive no public services whatsoever, such as roads, sanitation, electricity, schools, ...etc.
God forbid if you still think that such a state is worthy of existence, and you see the Holocaust as THE license for genocides, ethnic cleansing, land theft, Jim Crow & apartheid, ....etc; we sincerely wish for you to go live in Israel as an Arab for a single week, as Ta-Nehisi Coates did recently. Then, we hope to hear back from you if Zionist Jews gave a good name for refugees. Here is the unvarnished truth: No state, Jewish or not, deserves to exist when it openly practices such policies; no state!
Finally, it's worth emphasizing that "Israeli democracy" is an incarnation of Apartheid South Africa's democracy. It also could be argued that Apartheid South Africa was for a very long time the only democracy in Africa, however, it was a democracy for the White race only. Similarly, Zionist democracy in Israel was and still is designed to empower Jews only based on their religion. We ask you to watch this Israeli making this point in under two minutes:
At one point, Israel has to choose between being a "Democratic Jewish State" or a "Democratic State" to all of its citizens, Jews and non-Jews alike (a.k.a. liberal democracy). Eventually, such a facade of democracy will self-destruct and come crashing under its weight. Therefore, the talk about "Israeli democracy" is nothing but propaganda that makes good sound bytes in the Western and Israeli media, but deep at heart, it is rotten to the core. Just in case you have made it all the way here and you are still high on your Hasbarah supply, please watch this short click that will expose you to this farce of a fascist state:
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In fact, Israel is what we in political science call a herrenvolk democracy, democracy only for the masters. The fact that you allow people to participate in the formal side of democracy, namely to vote or to be elected, is meaningless if you don’t give them any share in the common good or in the common resources of the state, or if you discriminate against them despite the fact that you allow them to participate in the elections. On almost every level – from official legislation through governmental practices to social and cultural attitudes – Israel is only a democracy for one ethnic group which, given the space that Israel now controls, is not even a majority group anymore. So I think that you’ll find it very hard to use any known definition of democracy which is applicable for the Israeli case."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMcWLyUGZHU
These events just prove how big of liars the Zionists and their propagandist supporters are. They (that is Zionist "Israel") help impose puppet dictators on the oppressed Arab peoples and then try to make claims about Arabs allegedly not being "democratic" putting aside the evil apartheid, occupation actions of the Zionist "Israeli" regime. Arabs love democracy and elect strong resistance groups that fight in imperialism like Hamas in Palestine, Hezbollah and their allies in Lebanon, and everywhere else. The Americans and Zionist "Israelis" just don't want to allow true Arab democracy as thus Arabs will be united in fighting Zio-American imperialism in the Middle East.
State of thieves called Israel a
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basis steal the land of the
Palestinian people
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Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 4:33PM
Historical Palestine (or Israel within the borders it now controls including pre-1967 Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights) is one country with one water system, one electrical grid, one powerful military to defend and define its external borders, one monetary system, one telephone system, and one postal system. It is already one state, although half the population has lesser rights or none at all.
The current argument for creating two states is simply another attempt to carve out a Jewish state, called Israel, where Jews have by law superior rights to non-Jews. It involves ethnic cleansing, segregation, and racism; it is definitely not a formula for lasting peace.
American support of a racist, apartheid state is contrary to what we Americans profess to believe. Yet we overwhelmingly endorse the idea of a Jewish state and ignore the basic human rights of half the population that is not “chosen.”
Americans claim to endorse equal rights of citizenship everywhere in the world, except Israel. We do so both out of conviction and out of fear of being smeared with the anti-Semitic tar brush. We are loath to even discuss Jewish power that compels us to deny self determination and equal rights for Palestinians.
Our government supports the ghettoization of Gaza and other Palestinian enclaves; it ignores Israeli concentration camps like Ketziot; it supports the building of illegal settlements in occupied territory; it turns a blind eye to nuclear proliferation by Israel; it defends a Jewish attack on an unarmed humanitarian flotilla, and it sends our military to fight wars demanded by Israel.
It is time for all Americans to support the de facto One State of Israel/Palestine and to demand that it treat all of its inhabitants as citizens with equal rights, regardless of religion or ethnicity.
Daniel McGowan
Professor Emeritus
This is certainly true as one can see the corrupt, often Western backed Arab dictators were completely futile in their fights against the US and Western backed Zionist "Israelis". Some of the strongest fighting against Zionist "Israel" has been done by smaller resistance groups see for one of the earliest examples the PLO's success in the battle of Karameh on March 21, 1968 in Jordan against "Israeli" forces.