In a new speech today, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon loudly rejected the idea of Palestinian statehood, arguing that the Palestinians are too divided to ever form a government of their own.
Ya’alon also went on to ridicule the idea of democracy in the Middle East as “naive” and “patronizing,” insisting that the region’s Arab nations simply aren’t suited to be democratic in nature.
Rather, Ya’alon insisted that in 1916 the Arab nations were unready to be independent of imperial powers, and are unready to be democracies today, and pointed to the Arab Spring as a proof of the unsuitability of democracy.
The Israeli position vis-a-vis democracy in the region is becoming pretty straightforward in the wake of their loud backing for the Egyptian military coup, and promises to use Israeli diplomatic pull to secure support for the new junta on the grounds that the “stability” the junta could bring trumps the idea of democracy or human rights.
Yes – the idea of "democracy" in the Middle East should be ridiculed especially for Apartheid, ethnic cleansing nations like Israel.
What the…..? Ya’alon finally got it right, or did he knew all along that the word ‘Democracy’ have no place in the middle east, quick, give Obama a call and inform him of your findings.
Before they learned from Muslims how to hold courts and listen and deliberate in Europe, they use to duel to decide who is right and who is wrong. Founder of western political system like John Locke were directly inspired by Islam. He is right, Muslims don't want democracy, because Islam is better than democracy, why would you want something inferior over some thing superior.
Apartheid Israel calling the kettle black!
Consider that the U.S. is now governed by a man who stole two presidential elections, who faked his entire background and hid a large part of it, who rules by deceit, who trashes the Constitution, who divides Americans by class and race, who supports the Muslim Brotherhood and has signed over 900 presidential executive orders that give him police state power over the entire population. Now pull up a chair and let us talk about whether America itself is ready for self-rule.
I grew up in the southern us. And I'm old enough to have been alive in the pre-civil rights day when one used to hear the most awful racist speech about african-americans.
If I read these sorts of statements, and if I replace "Arab" with the n-word, it sounds exactly like the deep south, old-school, viscous and stupid racism that I grew up around. This is exactly the sort of things the KKK types in the old-school south used to say. That the people they didn't want to have any power simply weren't ready and educated and even civilized enough to handle something like democracy.
To my ear, Israel has at least a faction that is the same sort of KKK-style racists as where I grew up. (and long since fled if anyone is wondering)
So, is he saying that Israel isn't a democracy? Or is he saying that Israel isn't in the Middle East? He either failed political science or geography back when he was in school. I wonder which?