RES: RES: zionism

[Brad DeLong]

>  >-But to consider Israel "the only democratic country in the area" is not
>>very
>>-fair. Israel is a half democracy, a theocratic state who hasn´t even a
>>civil
>>-code and who exploits and deny basic rights to more than 1,5 million
>people
>>-inside his own frontiers.
>
>		Alexandre Fenelon
>
>
>But we do agree that Israel is "the only half-democratic country in
>the area" (save perhaps for Iran; Egypt, I think, counts as a quarter
>democratic)...
>
>
>		Brad DeLong
>
>-Yes, but maybe we could add Turkey to the list. I´m uncertain on
>-Jordan ,do you have better information?
>
>		Alexandre Fenelon

Turkey-as-half seems about right to me. Jordan... Jordan seems much 
more like an enlightened despotism... perhaps Great Britain in the 
mid-eighteenth century, where it is unclear exactly how much power 
the monarch really has but no one ever wishes to test things by 
defying his wishes...

Brad DeLong