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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
If you put everyone under the same rule, one person = one vote, then the nation would be democratic but not "Jewish." I suspect that is not something the Israelis would be interested in.
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It takes more than a vote to make something democratic. A democratic government even if voted in has to respect basic prinicples like freedom of speech, assembly, religion, etc...and then agree to hold regular elections afterwards.
The arab growth rate far exceeds the Jewish one, so it would be only a matter of time before muslim arabs were the majority. The last time the Palestinians had an election, they voted in Hamas, the least democratic government possible.
So yes you are correct Israelis have no interest in being the subjects of Hamas.
When you have two populations that have two fundamentally different moral and cultural systems, where they draw their basic ideas of what constitutes democracy (in this case Jewish and Arab/Muslim), a true democracy will never work. At least it hasn't come about yet. The two state solution makes more sense, and it has nothing to do with Israelis being undemocratic.