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Israel's Higher Law: Religion and Liberal Democracy in the Jewish State.(Book review)
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Israel's Higher Law: Religion and Liberal Democracy in the Jewish State. By Steven V. Mazie. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2006. 334 pp. $90.00 cloth. $31.95 paper.
"Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East." This oft-expressed view is given as one of the reasons for strong U.S. support of the Jewish state. Some people may notice an inconsistency or even a contradiction here: How can a state be both Jewish (that is linked to a particular religion/ethnicity) and democratic (especially when a fifth of its population is not Jewish, religiously ...
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