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We cant lose a democracy we never hadThe illusion of democracy in Israel is just one of the manyillusions that we Israelis have beeneducated to believe.

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An IDF soldier wi th Palest ini an s: Abr ogat ing rig ht s an d freedoms. Photo by Emil Salman

Many dirges have been heard lately lamenting the death of democracy on

account of the gov ernability law that passed its first reading in the Knesset

this past week. T here is reason to lament; it is indeed a bad and dangerous

piece of legislation. But for something to die, it must have once lived. Has

there been democracy in Israel before the governability was passed? The

answer is no. For Israel's entire 65-y ear existence it has not been a

democratic state. From its founding until 1966 Israel imposed martial law

on the Arab communities in its territory . Since the occupation of the West

Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967 until today, Israel has ruled over millions

of Palestinian inhabitants in these territories an occupied population

with its basic freedoms and rights abrogated.

There has been an illusion of democracy here, or alternatively, a

democracy for Jews only. This of course is a contradiction in terms. This

is just one of the many illusions, which we Israelis have been educated to

believe. It isn't easy to discover how much of life and education here are

full of indoctrination, because lightly scratching the surface rev eals what

is just a cover for an entirely different reality. Some of us discover this at

an early age, others later. T here are also those who will

never discover this, perhaps they would even prefer

not to see it.

Among the prominent examples are myths like "making the desert

bloom," or the statement, "A land without a people for a people without a

land" - basic concepts in Zionism that express a worldview that ignored the

land's inhabitants. There is "Hebrew labor," the aspiration that Jews who

settled the land would work with their own hands instead of managing

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others, which is perceived to be something positive until we understand

that it means excluding native Arabs from work. Another phenomenon

placed on a pedestal is the revival of the Hebrew language. While it was a

blessed miracle, it also was enabled by the pushing aside of many other

languages as well as other cultures, not infrequently with violence and

this already sounds less heartwarming.

There are also clichs like "our hand is outstretched in peace," as our

politicians are wont to say while they are still polishing up ruins. In other

versions, still in use today, there are mantras like "no partner for peace."

And who can forget "the world's most moral army"? The same army that

just recently detained a 5-year-old Palestinian child for investigation, and

the state that plans to evict 1,300 Palestinians from their homes in the

south Hebron hills to save t ime and resources, just to mention two

examples among countless others.

These are bothersome thoughts. Is it possible that everything we were

raised on, or at least most of it, is mistaken? What is the significance of

this? And does asking these questions undermine the fact of our ex istence

of here? If our ex istence here must be based on a strong fist, on pushing

out others, on nationalism, chauvinism and militarism, then the answer is

yes. But is this really the case?

In the history of Zionism there were other options besides that of Ben-

Gurion-style force. For example, the path shown by professors Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and Moshe Behar in their recently published book "Modern

Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity , Politics, and

Culture." Jewish intellectuals of Middle Eastern origin at the beginning of

the 20th century warned against adopting a European arrogance to the

land's inhabitants and called for respectful dialogue with them. But their

words fell on deaf ears. The Brit Shalom faction of Hugo Bergmann and

Gershom Scholem also proposed another way in the 1930s that was not

accepted.

The state established here was not, despite its pretensions, "the sole

democracy in the Middle East." It appears that the first c ondition for

really f ixing this situation, if that is still possible, is the recognition that we

did not lose democracy now. It never resided here.

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