Re: Free the Netherlands!

[Adam C. Lipscomb]

Ibrahim wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2001, Andrew Crystall wrote:
>
> > Only one democracy has even declared war on another
> > Democracy. Israel.

> Israel a democracy?  Thats stretching the commonly accepted Western
> definition a wee bit.

On what do you base that conclusion?  Just wondering, as I'm a Westerner,
and Israel's government has always been accepted as "democratic"
(acknowledging that it's really more of a republic then a pure democracy,
like all other "democracies") in the sources I'm familiar with.

Adam C. Lipscomb