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#4 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-10-11 06:17 AM
Israel under Netanyahu is every bit the apartheid nation** that South Africa was, but Israel doesn't have the guts that South Africa displayed in ending apartheid and going to a full on one person, one vote, share the power, democracy.
** Apartheid was a legally enforced system of racial segregation in South Africa that gave political, social, and economic power to the white minority while restricting where the nonwhite majority could live, work, study, travel, and vote. **
You may not realize that Israel has been a democratic state (parliamentary democracy, like many in Europe), with "one person, one vote" for every citizen of Israel since inception, including sizeable (over 21%) minority of Arab population, who have their own parties, are members of Knesset (Parliament), judiciary and Supreme Court, and allowing for religious exemptions, like military service and serving kosher or halal food in hospitals or prisons.
For example, Arabs in Israel own or operate more than half of pharmacies.
And Israel will have scheduled elections in about two weeks, on October 27, according to their democratic system of government.
en.wikipedia.org - Israeli system of government
By contrast, nearly all-Arab populations of Gaza had their last elections in 2006, and has been under Hamas management since 2007, when they threw PA members and their families from the rooftops, and West Bank where Mahmood Abbas (KGB alias 'Krotov') is now into his 21st year of his 4-year term... he's been "elected" to... actually, "inherited" after Arafat (KGB alias 'Alef') died - sounds much more like apartheid?
You'll be hard-pressed to name some neighboring countries of Israel in the Middle East with a democratic system of government that has been present since 1948, even while they fought the wars imposed on them by Arab states, sponsored by Soviet Union initially, and later number of terrorist proxies financed and trained by Iran-Russia axis.
#3 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-10-09 08:44 PM
Only about one-third of Israelis want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remain in office, according to an October 2026 survey by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Agam Institute>
That makes sense, it's actually not a bad result for Netanyahu's Likud party, in line with most .
Only about a third of Israelis want the main opposition, former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot's new party Yashar, to become PM, and they are very close, according to latest polls - each bloc has 52 seats which are short of 61 needed to form a majority government... and there are number of smaller parties, including Arab parties and Democrat party (each with about 10% in recent polls).
If no one party gets majority, they can offer smaller parties to join to form the "minority government" or form the so-called shared "unity government", which happened with Likud and Naftali Bennett party in 2021-2022, just months before October 7, 2023.
That's very much like in many European multi-party social democracies.
We here go into November 3 elections with both major parties having negative favorability polls - according to RCP, GOP is at -17.1, and Democrats are at -14.9, and undecided at still very large 8%... so it's kind of a race to the bottom - the "negative enthusiasm" advantage is relative.
Plenty of time and opportunities for either party to screw things up even more, but that's democracy... not apartheid.
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Remember the big time show the Democrats and the FBI made of the politically motivated raids on Trump? Boxes of unrelated documents were laid out as if they meant something. Contrast that to this legal investigation, the FBI is not turning it into a big show. They are maintaining silence, like you would for a legal investigation.