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And Israel is a democracy, right? I think separating people and government of democratic countries is a fallacy.

• lucideer 5y ago
  The only fallacy here is assuming that "democracy" works that simply and efficiently. Even aside from the fact that Israel is typically rated a "flawed democracy" in most indices due to the lack of press freedom, even it were a so-called "full democracy", no democracy even claims to be representative of constituents in any direct way (even those with relatively broad suffrage like NZ). Their goal is to be a best-of-alternatives approach in contrast to more regressive systems, along with known limitations such as majoritarianism, plutocratic platform access issues, etc. So yes, it's the government. Some subset of the population may agree with them yes, but they are still very separate entities.
  • f6v 5y ago
    Might as well be a very large subset. Just want to point it out.