Is Israel a democracy or is Israel a potential Jewish democracy?

I think that this definition will not hold water for longer.

In your recent article, Israel's fading democracy, you lament the state of Israel's democratic

values.

What are some of the most imminent dangers to Israel's democracy?

It's not an easy question to answer because you see weaknesses in democracies all over

the world.

I mean, you see the eroded trust of people in their democratic elected institutions all

over the West.

So part of what happens to the Western democracy happens to Israel as well.

And this says, the performance is not that good.

The feeling of the individual that somehow did not serve me, but they elected, they served

their own purposes or goals or self-fulfillment missions or whatever it is.

And it's not there for me.

So this part of it what happens to the entire West is there.

In Israel, I will say you have at least three more components.

The first one is we spoke earlier and this is the inevitable collision between church

and state.

The second is, if you define Israel as a Jewish democratic state and the Jewish project

takes over the democratic project, all of a sudden you realize that we have here an ethnic

democracy.

Can democracy be partial?

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