Can a Jewish State be Democratic?

[jbg]

Oh... More democratic? Probably not. About the same.

Still rather funny. Jordan is nominally a constitutional monarchy. Parliament has been dissolved five times in two years. Link here excerpts below:

Jordan's king appoints new PM to form new government

From

Kareem Khadder

, CNN

updated 8:48 PM EDT, Wed October 10, 2012

(CNN)

-- Less than a week after dissolving the parliament, Jordan's King Abdullah II appointed a new prime minister Wednesday as the country deals with

demands for political reform

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Abdullah Ensour, the new prime minister, is tasked with forming a new government -- Jordan's fifth in two years. He was appointed after King Abdullah accepted the resignation of outgoing Prime Minister Fayez al-Tarawneh, the country's royal court said.

Last week, thousands of peaceful protesters gathered in Amman to call for constitutional reforms, saying the king has too much power. They demanded that representatives be able to run for election in a democratic system rather than be under his control.

King Abdullah has also called for early elections, close to the new year.

There is no clear deadline for establishing a new government, former parliamentarian Khaled Kalaldeh said. But he said it's in the prime minister's best interest to set up the new administration within 24 hours, due to a planned demonstration Friday by the opposition and the Muslim Brotherhood.

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In the past two years, King Abdullah has fired four prime ministers. In February 2011, shortly before Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was forced out of office following weeks of intense protest, the king dismissed his government and ordered "genuine political reform," the country's royal court reported.

But the king appears to be in a tough spot. Political reforms would mean taking power away from his base -- the Bedouin tribes, a group known as the East Bankers.

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Edited January 29, 2013 by jbg

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Link here excerpts below:

That's a rather inconsistent article; or the protesters don't know they have what they're demanding. There's an elected, representative legislature in parliament, but people are protesting for... representatives to be elected? I don't see anywhere that the parliament has been dissolved five times in two years (not that that'd be a sign of a lack of democracy; too much the opposite, it might be said). Of the five prime ministers there's been in the last two years, I see three of the four no longer in office--al-Bakhit, Al-Khasawneh, and Tarawneh--resigned, rather than being "fired", as the article claims.

[jbg]

That's a rather inconsistent article; or the protesters don't know they have what they're demanding. There's an elected, representative legislature in parliament, but people are protesting for... representatives to be elected? I don't see anywhere that the parliament has been dissolved five times in two years (not that that'd be a sign of a lack of democracy; too much the opposite, it might be said). Of the five prime ministers there's been in the last two years, I see three of the four no longer in office--al-Bakhit, Al-Khasawneh, and Tarawneh--resigned, rather than being "fired", as the article claims.

What the protesters are demanding is tyranny of the majority; French Revolution on a bloodier, grander scale.