Actually, Becky is right - Israel is a liberal democracy IF YOU BELONG TO THE RIGHT RACE/ETHNICITY. Just like Apartheid South Africa was a perfectly nice democracy IF you were white and didn't speak out in favor of changing the status quo. The same with Israel today, a wonderful democracy if you belong to the Harrenvolk and keep your mouth shut about change. When members of the master race, or chosen people or whatever, claim Israel is a democracy, they are not lying - it is a democracy for them, just not the untermensch.