Reply #50: Israel is NOT the only democracy in the ME

[dutchdemocrat]

Turkey is a democracy and the Turks are more apt to set a better example of democracy in the Middle East with all the reforms they are implementing in order to join the EU than Israel with it's Palestinian concentration camps.

http://www.mfa.gov.tr/grupe/ej/01.htm

The argument that Israel is the only democracy in the ME is dead.

Besides, the US has propped up more dictatorships around the world than one can shake a stick at and is currently undermining real democracies such as Venezuela's and leaning on Lula in Brazil.

This bullshit 'spreading' of democracy by the US is fine rhetoric... only when it is in its own economic interests.

Call it neoimperialism if you like.