Is it more democratic than Iran? Sure. Wonderful. It doesn't come close to America. In America, you vote for your leaders. You vote for individual members of Congress and for the President. The Senate votes for the Supreme Court as nominated by the President.
In Israel, you vote for a party who appoints members of Knesset who vote for the PM. And you can't get a new party started because of election thresholds. The result is the same people year after year, decade after decade. In America you see new faces all the time. Carter, Clinton, Obama, Trump. All new faces. I just had to look up JD Vance, Trump's VP. AOC is new. All the time new people. In Israel, same people, and not just the PM, but Bennett, Lapid, Liberman, Shaked.
And the Supreme Court votes for itself and has absurd powers over the Knesset. In the USA, a person has to bring a case to the court which then decides according to the Constitution and case law. In Israel, a yenta looks out over society and decides what's "reasonable."
You see the difference everywhere. Oh, the military decided to shut down Meron this yeah. They decided. In the USA, there'd be injunctions where the court would put an end to that funny business.
Shouting does not a democracy make. Oh in Israel they yell at each other. That doesn't make it a democracy. In fact, it's the opposite. A democracy requires some civility and cooperation. In Israel, there is none.
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