Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
Israel is the only democracy in this part of the world.
Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
The Knesset members - Jews and Arabs - don't represent the state of Israel. The government is the one that represents the state of Israel officially.
As a citizen of a democratic state, I have always believed that when a prime minister is elected in Israel, even those who voted against him at the polls are obligated to desire his success.
As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called Israel, it is going to be either non-Jewish or non-democratic. If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.
We are fighting to keep Israel a democracy - not just in terms of its electoral system but also in terms of its values.
We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means.
Israel cannot be a democracy if it occupies land of other people.