Reply #7: land theft... [View All]

[iandhr]

... Israel is a country that gave back that the look over in the 1967 war when Egypt attacked. They gave back the Sinai back to Egypt. As a Jew I can say the Israel's current biggest problem is the religious right wing. The get more power then there electoral support. Israel population is very secular at large. This is because that any party that gets more than 2% of the votes get seated in Parliament the lowest threshold of any parliamentary democracy. (I think) So on many occasions So even if the Labor party wins the election the often need the religious parties to form a government. For change to happen they need to raise the threshold to something like 7% which i think is what Germany has so that if Labor or Kadia wins a election down the road they will not need to use Shas (or a similar party to form a goverment)