Israeli Democracy

clipped from www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com Israel moves to eliminate its only real government opposition By Shahar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondent The Knesset plenum on Wednesday passed a preliminary reading of a bill that would allow the Knesset to dismiss one of its members for publicly expressing anything that falls within "denial of the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, incitment to racism, support for armed battles by an enemy state or a terror organization against the State of Israel." The bill passed with 34 MKs voting in favor, and 22 against. Most of the coalition factions supported the bill.