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Originally Posted by blankall
Israel has total freedom of speech.
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What's remarkable about Israel is how it manages to maintain a strong democracy and freedom of speech even though it's the target of unrelenting belligerence from its neighbours and from terrorist organizations within the country. There are unquestionably mainstream and popular voices in Israel that condemn the expansion of settlements in the occupied territories.
In fact, the pro-Israel lobby in the U.S. (and American Jews in general) are more hawkish than Israelis themselves. It's easy to be inflexibly hardline from the safety of 7000 miles away.