Can Israel remain a democracy?
Sure. Think of South Africa for many decades before majority rule.
Think of any of the multitude of historic examples of democracies that rested on a far from universal franchise.
Athens was a democracy in which slavery was lawful and common; slaves did not vote - nor, I believe, did women.
Think of the democratic republics that have been the norm among the settler states born of the age of European expansion.
Those in Africa eventually failed, and one might say they failed because they broadened the franchise, exactly as predicted.
Except for Israel (so far).
Those in the Americas and Oceania are still with us, though mostly now with much expanded franchises.
My thought is that Bibi is out to save the Jewish State and he thinks the two-state solution too great a risk.
So instead he's going with a policy of long term ethnic cleansing that dares not speak its name.
Israel, after all, was founded in ethnic cleansing.
Not a single writer wringing his hands about the Arab population bomb in Israel has even dared to mention this, to think this thought.
But Bibi dares to think it, I think.
Why bother to incur global opprobrium by saying it?
Ask him in his sleep and he will tell you.
Oh, you want a Palestinian State?
There already is one and its name is "Jordan."
PS.
I am surprised a man as smart as DM can still deceive himself about Israel ever having been, or ever being, the Jews' global safe haven.
But smart people believe a lot of crap, after all.
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