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To: bentway who wrote (166727)	7/21/2005 3:27:16 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 281500

Never mind defending Israel's policy against Pals...what about Israel's policy about Jews? This is what I've read. Can anyone confirm or deny it? There is a law in Israel, passed in 1985, which forbids political parties to openly oppose the principle of a Jewish state. Neither are they allowed to work for a change of this principle through democratic means. A party so doing will be banned from elections to the Knesset. Democracy is thus denied those citizens – even Jews – who wish to work within the parliamentary system towards replacing the Jewish state with a secular one. A state which represents all its citizens’ equal rights regardless of religion or ethnic origin. This law alone prevents Israel from being seen as a liberal democracy of Western type.