Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.
According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.
Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
The situation of any leader in the Middle East is not easy.
The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
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