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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by BeFlatXIII on Saturday June 26, 2021 @06:34PM (#27646592)
Perhaps they ought to set up their constitution to have a military pledged to the maintenance of a purely secular state that will overthrow any overtly religious government, no matter the electoral margins they earned when getting installed.
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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by let_me_ask_this on Saturday June 26, 2021 @06:47PM (#27646716)
Or they could do what Lebanon does and have some mandatory representation from all ethnic groups in all important public institutions. There are definitely ways to make this work, if there is a true willingness to live in peace.
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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by wolverine876 on Saturday June 26, 2021 @07:02PM (#27646809)
Lebanon doesn't seem like such an appealing model ...
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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by jdjdbxbfn on Sunday June 27, 2021 @04:51AM (#27649803)
What are you talking about? Arabs ARE represented in the Knesset.
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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by wolverine876 on Saturday June 26, 2021 @07:02PM (#27646804)
> a military pledged to the maintenance of a purely secular state that will overthrow any overtly religious government

That's an idea with a very bad history and no political legitimacy: What grounds does a general have to tell their neighbors what to do? Nobody voted for them. What stops the general from arbitrarily wielding that power?

Why vest that power in the military? A civilian institution could make the decision, such as a court interpreting a constitution.

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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by guerrilla on Saturday June 26, 2021 @10:28PM (#27647974)
I think you're being naive because the military always has that power, regardless of what people want to pretend. What would make it legitmate is that the people agreed to it ahead of time.
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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by wolverine876 on Sunday June 27, 2021 @02:23AM (#27649107)
> the military always has that power, regardless of what people want to pretend

Maybe in your fantasies, but not in advanced democracies. Nobody would follow those orders; there's no evidence of it ever happening, in centuries. Technically, the people of Washington DC have the power to overthrow the government if they all rush the seats of power at the same time, but really they don't.

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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by guerrilla on Sunday June 27, 2021 @07:33AM (#27650687)
There have been hundreds of coup d'etat and attempts at such in "advanced democracies." And if you're trying to claim they aren't advanced if they haven't had a coup d'etat then there's just no true Scotsman, is there?
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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by wolverine876 on Sunday June 27, 2021 @04:15PM (#27654889)
When? Where? I suppose it could depend on definitions of 'advanced' democracies, but it ain't happening in the modern US, UK, Germany, France, Japan, S. Korea, Canada, Australia, etc. etc.
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