Can Bennett and Lapid really rebrand Israel as a liberal democracy? - Israel News
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So long as Israel enshrines Jewish supremacy in law, it can t be a liberal democracy - Israel News
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Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid (L) and political strategist Mark Mellman in the Knesset before the swearing in of Israel s 36th government, June 13, 2021. (Yesh Atid)
American communications and strategic adviser Mark Mellman was alone at his Washington DC home on June 2 when the news broke in Ramat Gan, Israel.
From the sixth floor of the Kfar Maccabiah Hotel at around 11 p.m. local time, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid had called then-president Reuven Rivlin and informed him that they had succeeded in forming a government. A photo of the two signing a coalition agreement with Mansour Abbas, head of an Islamist party called Ra’am, and a clip of the two of them talking to the president on the phone soon surfaced on Twitter.
Jewish parties compromise against Palestinians and call it democracy
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