There are few places where pure democracy is practiced. A few towns New England and parts of Switzerland, but for the most part `democratic` nations depend upon some impure form of government based upon the `democratic` principle.
That is in some fashion the people elect the people who run the government.
One can easily suggest that in Israel people only vote for party lists and thus they only get to vote for a party and not the people. Or, that in Iran the people are only allowed to vote for candidates that have first been vetted by the Ayatollahs, and thus they have no real say. In America, we can only vote for those who have been well funded by the rich, and are acceptable to one of the two major parties, and thus we can only vote for those the rich first approve of.
These complaints have some truth, but essentially so long as the people of a nation BELIEVE they live in a democracy, they do.
Thus Israel is a democracy, even if a very different democracy, and nation, than it was |
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