Israel Democracy and Human rights

Israel has a free press that can criticize the government without fear of government authorities.
Israel has an independent legal system that has already rejected Parliament's laws because of human rights violations.

Israel has pluralism that expresses itself in an extensive multi-party system representing different world views of many sectors of the population.

The people of Israel can replace its government in free elections.

Since its establishment there have been no executions in Israel except for the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann who was executed in 1961.


The Arab minority has representation in the Israeli parliament - The Knesset : 11 members of parliament and 3 parties, including parties that deny the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. Arabic is an official language in Israel. The Israeli academy is full of Arab students and lecturers.

Israel has absolute religious freedom . Sometimes in times of tension, age limits are put on Muslim worshipers for praying on the Temple Mount for fear of riots that may pose a danger to Jewish worshipers at the Western Wall.

In Israel women reach the most senior positions: past Prime Minister - Golda Meir, the current opposition leader Tzipi Livni, the chairman of Parliament and in the past Vice President of Israel - Dalia Itzik and President of the Supreme court - Dorit Beinish. Over 20% of the members of the parliament are women. In recent years the army also opened its ranks to women in the combat area.
Although an optimal state of equality has not yet been achieved there is great progress and Israel is certainly moving in the right direction.

Homosexuality is legal in Israel and the status of the same sex is improving gradually with the support of the Supreme Court for full equality. gay parades are held annually in big cities and the army recruits gays into its ranks. The Separation fence was built between Israel and the West Bank to protect human life and prevent suicide bombers from entering Israel. The decision was made after the harsh suicide attacks that were carried out in the nineties which killed and injured hundreds of Israeli civilians. Every sane country must protect the lives of its citizens - the right to life and security.

Israeli democracy is far from perfect and it has many problems, but still is the most enlightened liberal democratic country in the Middle East.
Considering the state of constant threat that Israel has been in since its establishment as a small country surrounded by a hostile Muslim Arab world, even compared to Western democracies, we have nothing to be ashamed of.

Non Muslims killed by Muslims

During WWI the Turks slaughtered approximately one million Armenians. The Armenians call it a Holocaust.

In 1988, 270 passengers were killed in the "Pan Am" plane takedown over Lockerbie by Libyan government agents.

2973 people were killed in the September 11attacks in 2001 in the U.S.

Arab militias. are doing an ethnical genocide in Darfur Sudan: Approximately half a million people were killed or died of hunger and more than 2 million lost their homes

Muslims killing Muslims

Thousands of Palestinians were killed during "Black September" in 1970 by the Jordanian army.

More than a million people were killed in IRAN – IRAQ WAR in the 80’s.

150,000 Lebanese people died in Lebanon’s civil war in the 70’s.

Approximately 20,000 Syrian rebel citizens were killed by order of the President of Syria in 1982, in El-Hama.

In 1990, Iraq invaded a fellow Arab country- Kuwait. Only the U.S with a U.N. coalition threw the Iraqis out.

Thousands of Iraqis were murdered by suicide bombers in the years after Saddam Hussein’s fall.

The number of Arabs and Muslims killed by Arabs and Muslims is by far greater than the number of Arabs killed by Israel in the Israel-Arab conflict.

Human rights in the arab-muslim and eastern countries

Woman are usually suppressed in Arabs and Muslims countries: they have to hide their faces or bodies, can’t have proper education,
etc...

Punishing methods such as lashing, decapitation, cutting off organs and stoning are commonly used in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan (……) where the Sharia laws are valid.

Homosexuality is considered a capital punishment crime in Iran.

According to an Amnesty International 2007 report, the countries leading in use of death penalty are: China (470) Iran (317) Saudi Arabia (135).

In the Chechen War in the late 90’s, tens of thousands of Chechens, many of them citizens, were killed by the Russian army, and many cities and villages were demolished.

China systematically suppresses the people of Tibet.

Many journalists were murdered in Russia in the last years under Putin.

China, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Russia are all members of the UN human rights council and voted for the Goldstone report.

Human rights in the West

Many civilians were killed by NATO in Serbia and Afganistan

In Iraq, American and British soldiers humiliate and torture prisoners in Abu Graib prison

In Guantánamo prison, prisoners were treated almost as non- human.

Executions by lethal injection and electric chair are very common in the U.S.

Since its foundation in 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Council has condemned Israel 9 times for violation of human rights. No other country has received such treatment.

What in the name of GOD do you want of us???
Look in the mirror!!!