As I understand it, we are all supposed to fawn adoringly over the state of Israel because it's, you know, a full-fledged democracy, or something to that effect. Apparently, not so much:
Israel bans Arab parties from coming election
Israel on Monday banned Arab political parties from running in next month's parliamentary elections, drawing accusations of racism by an Arab lawmaker who said he would challenge the decision in the country's Supreme Court.
Democracy: Because it's almost always a generally good idea. Except when it isn't.
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Makes no sense at all. Are the powers that be worried that the Arab parties might win?
Well, I'm glad that talking point is no longer operative.
Firstly the decision is up to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court hasn't ruled yet.
Secondly the two parties that were banned were banned for:
(1) negation of the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state; (2) incitement to racism; (3) support of an armed struggle against Israel by supporting an enemy state or a terrorist organization.
Basically, if Al Qaeda were to form a party in Canada, I doubt they would be allowed to run in the elections. However Canada would remain a democracy.
shorther shelmazl = they can't vote because they ain't Jews...
But remember, Isreal is not an apartheid state...
In other news please vote for Likud because their charter says that the Gaza strip belongs Jews...
"Don't believe an Arab, even one who has been in the grave for 40 years."
"You can’t teach a monkey to speak and you can’t teach an Arab to be democratic. You’re dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers. Muhammad, their prophet, was a robber and a killer and a liar. The Arab destroys everything he touches."
In other news, Jason still blows dead donkeys...
Basically, if Al Qaeda were to form a party in Canada, I doubt they would be allowed to run in the elections. However Canada would remain a democracy.
We have a Communist Party, which wants to change our entire system of government if elected. Usually they run in university area ridings.
The fun part is watching the election returns when, as always, they get a few votes but they lose their deposit.
liberal supporter,
Yes, but the Communist Party does not support terrorists or enemies of Canada at the time of war.
Anyway, chances are Supreme Court will permit them to run.
Hey, Shlemiel: if you're going to wall off your own blog and prevent anyone from even reading it, then it would behoove you to refrain from cluttering up everyone else's blogs with your million re-statements of the obvious and tedious moral equivalences.
What an arrogant bore.
Emerged from his little bolt-hole, I see.
I wonder what the banned parties actually did. They probably wanted to do something super-terrorist like talk to Hamas or recognize Israel's 1967 borders.
Fucking Islamofascists.
@Kusotarre:
Their former head, Azmi Bishara fled the country under suspicion of spying for Hizbullah. There are Arab MPs in other parties.
The ban which may or may not take place would not be unique... The Canadian National Socialist Unity Party was banned in Canada during WWII.
The ban which may or may not take place would not be unique... The Canadian National Socialist Unity Party was banned in Canada during WWII.
But... but... "Adscam".
How the hell do you commenter’s no get what shlemazl is saying??????
You just don't want to see what is going on, amazing.
How the hell do you commenter’s no get what shlemazl is saying??????
Wayne, can you translate that from "gibberish" to something akin to "human"?
Wayne,
Althought these people are heavily overrepresented in the blogsphere, keep in mind that we are trying to communicate with dumbest 13% of the Canadian public.
IPSOS took a poll a couple of days ago. Half of all Canadians don't really care one way or another. That's not surprising considering most Canadians don't really care about the actual genocide in Darfur. Of the remainder 36% side with Israel and only 13% with the "Palestinians". (http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Ipsos-936313.html)
CC here actually thinks that Hamas is more democratic than Israel, which tells you all you need to know about him. You'll never explain to these people that 2*2=4.
Shorter schlemiel: "I will now mock CC's position regarding democracy despite the fact that he provided ample and incontrovertible evidence for it, because that's the kind of intellectual loser I am."
Hamas are not the good guys, despite the evil of Israel.
In fact it looks like Hamas is yet another Israeli false flag.
http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/israel-created-hamas-to-split-palestine/
CC:
I did not take schlemiels position as mocking you CC. He was stating a facts which you disagree with.
You are no "intellectual loser", oh no. You are the master of partial truth and sell it as pure fact. You are dangerous in your snark.
Anarchore:
Go find some truthers to hang out with. Another conspiracy theory, just what the world needs.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=9963
here is undeniable evidence that Hamas was created by Israel using the old strategy of divide and conquer. People like Wayne just can't stand the Truth and the Facts, they rub their eyes out:
According to Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)".
Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Islamist movement in Palestine, returning from Cairo in the seventies, established an Islamic charity association. Prime Minister Golda Meir, saw this as a an opportunity to counterbalance the rise of Arafat’s Fatah movement. .According to the Israeli weekly Koteret Rashit (October 1987), "The Islamic associations as well as the university had been supported and encouraged by the Israeli military authority" in charge of the (civilian) administration of the West Bank and Gaza. "They [the Islamic associations and the university] were authorized to receive money payments from abroad."
The Islamists set up orphanages and health clinics, as well as a network of schools, workshops which created employment for women as well as system of financial aid to the poor. And in 1978, they created an "Islamic University" in Gaza. "The military authority was convinced that these activities would weaken both the PLO and the leftist organizations in Gaza." At the end of 1992, there were six hundred mosques in Gaza. Thanks to Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad (Israel’s Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks) , the Islamists were allowed to reinforce their presence in the occupied territories. Meanwhile, the members of Fatah (Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine) and the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression.....
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