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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (49891)	10/7/2002 10:31:08 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Let’s hope the Palestinians have an opportunity to experience the advantages of an open-democratic society. No Arab nation will truly implement democracy until they learn tolerance for other people and ideas, and creating a societal abhorrence of violence. And I also suspect that it won't happen until women are given the right to vote and participate in government in these Arab nations. Because women has different agendas in life, and waging "Jihad" is not likely to be one of them. In fact, I opine that some of the monarchial regimes won't be able to become democratic unless certain aspects of their culture are forcibly changed by retructuring their government to make democratic institutions more viable, such as was the case in post-WWII Japan.. (eg: Saudi Arabia). The rest of the Arab nations have "potemkin" elections, where there is the form, but no substance. Your right to vote is merely to reaffirm the current dictator. And in this area, Israel is light years ahead of them, and I'll give a viable democracy the benefit of the doubt 99% of the time over a country ruled by tyrannical governments and dictators. Because such a government represents all sides of a debate and inherently deplores war. But dictatorships?? Well, they are the representation of the will of the Ruling Elites who dominate that society... And listen.. while I favor Israel's position in certain particular matters, it's not that I'm biased against Arabs (only the militant ones)... I just think the world will be a whole lot better off if countries are democracies, or at least progressing in that direction.. If that's the definition of "US imperialism" as some out here have suggested, then so be it... Hawk