How long have you heard the Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East?  How many times has Israel been held up as some shining example for the rest of the Middle East?

Does a so-called democracy do such a thing?

From a report on the AP……..

Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence service said on Thursday that it has detained a young Israeli Arab journalist for traveling to Lebanon, which Israel considers an enemy country.

Majd Kayyal, a 23-year-old journalist for the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir, traveled to Beirut last month for a conference.

Although Lebanon bars Israeli citizens from entering, the Shin Bet said Palestinian officials in the West Bank gave Kayyal Palestinian travel documents that allowed him to enter Lebanon.

Kayyal was arrested last Saturday at the Israeli border on suspicion of being recruited by a militant organization. The Shin Bet said it dropped that suspicion, and is considering indicting him for traveling to Lebanon.

Kayyal was held for five days before being allowed access to a lawyer. The Shin Bet said this is permitted in security cases.

The more we learn about Israel the more we realize it is NO democracy.  I believe one of the characteristics is free press and the rights of journalist to report the news…….Israel crapped on that one…how many others does it crap on?

Let us see….land confiscation, special work permits, minority injustices, etc………..Israel should NOT be held up as an example of anything but totalitarian state…..which puts one group of citizens above all others…..PERIOD!