By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service: Higher Arab Monitoring Committee tells gov't to dismiss Lieberman
Talkback
Title:Democracy is responsibilty; rights AND obligations
Name:Alicia
City: State:
Some Israeli-Arab-MKs do not seem to understand this. It appears to me that they falsely define
democracy as "limitless freedoms", "everything-goes", "not standing on any moral platform".
Well, surprise, surprise! Democracy does have boundaries, which every democratic country draws according to the mental maturity of its
inhabitants: the more morally corrupt the people are, the more laws and restrictions there are, the more self-disciplined they are the less laws and restrictions are needed in a society. Every democracy has one fundamental rule: that of loyalty to the state.
Loyalty means working for the welfare of one´s society, acting for the safety and interests of one´s country; never deceiving it and its people, never endangering its safety, never acting against it in any way. THIS we cannot say about the Arab MK, who threatened "to vomit out every Arab, who volunteers to do National service"! Israel rather "vomits out" such MKs from her midst!