William Said:

Does Israel is "different" democracy? Jewish and Democratic?

We Answered:

Hello!

Being Israeli I obviously support the existence of my country and regard the democracy we institute very favorably.
Like every democracy we have flaws and faults, but apparently the alleged contradiction between the democratic and the Jewish characteristics of Israel, is no more different than other well-based democracies:

1) Britain, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and many other European democracies have crosses on their flags. Does this oppress these countries' non-Christian citizens and contradict their democratic nature?

2) Repatriation laws similar to the Israeli Law of Return are implemented in Germany, Greece, Finland, Poland, Hungary etc etc… For some reason it's considered racist only when it comes to Israel.

3) And shouldn't the American Independence Day be considered oppressing and offensive for the Native American minority, as it praises the American Declaration of Independence, that refer to them as " the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions "?

Renee Said:

list of countries which are still non-democratic?

We Answered:

To some degree, what is considered democratic is up to interpretation, but here's a general list:

http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Dictators…

Non-Democratic Governments

The worlds non-democratic or significantly non-democratic nations are classified in the categories below. See also Oppressive Regimes.

Monarchies With More Than Symbolic Power (Royal Dictatorships)

This section includes all non-symbolic monarchies. In many, there are no elections of any kind. In others, there is elected legislative input, but substantial executive and/or judicial power resides in a hereditary leader or very small hereditarily determined oligarchy.

Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Jordan
Morocco
Bhutan
Brunei
United Arab Emirates
Bahrain
Oman
Qatar
Swaziland
Nepal
Malaysia

Theocracies

Iran (Iran has functioning democratic institutions which are significantly constrained by religious leaders who have the authority to override most actions of the secular government and the free functioning of the electoral process).

Countries With One Party Governments

Cameroon
China
Cuba
North Korea
Laos
Vietnam
Syria

Countries With Dictators

For these purposes dictators are described as leaders who hold power not won or subject to removal in periodic democratic elections, who are not in power by virtue in inherited position or the backing of a broad based single party system. Concrete steps putting these countries firmly on the path to multi-party democracy have not been taken.

Central African Republic
Congo (Kinshasa)
Congo (Brazzaville)
Equatorial Guinea
Egypt
Ethiopia
Pakistan
Myanmar (aka Burma)
Kazakstan
Libya
Sudan
Turkmenistan

Countries With Transitional Governments

The nations have not put into place a full set of elected officials through a free and fair electoral process although they are in the process of doing so, are merely in the process of appearing to do so, or have established some sort of multi-party consultative body by appointment.

Afghanistan
Cambodia
Egypt
Eritrea
Haiti
Iraq
Ivory Coast
Liberia
Nepal
Russia
Kazakhstan

Countries with Governments With Incomplete Control of their National Territories

Afghanistan (entirety)
Argentina (British Occupation of the Malvinas Islands]]
Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh)
China (Taiwan)
Cuba (Guantanamo Bay)
Cyprus (Republic of North Kidris)
Georgia (Ossetia)
India (Jammu & Kashmir)
Iraq (entirety)
Ireland (British Occupation of partsd of Ulster)
Japan (Russian Occupation of the Northern Islands)
Kurdistan (Turkish, Iranian and Syrian Occupation, parrital autonomy of Iraqi Kurdistan)
Lebanon (Israeli Occupation)
Moldova (Republic of Transnistria)
Pakistan (Northwest Territory-Pashtunistan)
Rapa Nui (Chilean Occupation)
Somalia (entirety)
Sri Lanka (Tamil north)
Sudan (Darfur)

I think that it's interesting that some of the US closest allies (Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, for example) are on the list of Non-Democratic countries.

ADDED: If you want to get technical, the US isn't a democracy, it's a democratic-republic.

Terrence Said:

Do you think the West can still claim democracy, accuse other countries of being non-democratic and sometimes?

We Answered:

The West ousted Mossadegh and installed him with the Shah and the SAVAK. The SAVAK was trained by Mossad and the CIA to torture political dissenters of the Shah's regime.

Yet, we bow down and kiss Abdullah.

Jaime Said:

Plzzz give me a list of 3-5 non -democratic countries.....I have to make civics project on it today only .....

We Answered:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?…

Yvonne Said:

Democratic Republic or Non??

We Answered:

You forgot the dictators and communists!