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  1. Do you think the current Israeli government does? Has any Israeli government, besides maybe Barak and Rabin, truly supported a two-state solution and took steps to show this? One look at the settlement population increase and it's hard to see how any Israeli government, besides the usual lip service to keep the status quo going, which is more land theft, wants to allow Palestinians their own state.
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  2. I wonder, hotenough, if the US would ever be able to do anything positive in your eyes---even if it actually did. Democracy, at any rate, back to the original subject, getting away from America-bashing: The flaw in democracy is that it gives the People what they desire, but what they want at the moment isn't necessarily what's best as far as the People's long-term interests. And the People are fickle. A direct democracy would get out of control, that's why we have republics (or crowned republics/constitutional monarchies with representative government, like Canada). The leaders need a little leeway to make decisions, sometimes independent of the wilder winds of public debate, believe it or not. It's a flawed system, but it's really the only thing that's better than dictatorship/despotism/whatever you want to call the nastier forms of government.
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