Are poor moxy

You obviously despise Jews. Whats new!

Israel is the only genuine Democracy in the Middle East.

Israel has Arabs in its Parliament! See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_members_of_the_Knesset moxy

Working your way through the typical Dictatorships and Kingdoms of the Middle East can moxy find any country dominated by Arabs that permits Jews in its Parliament?

Dear plantagenet,

"Working your way through the typical Dictatorships and Kingdoms of the Middle East can moxy find any country dominated by Arabs that permits Jews in its Parliament?"

I will take this one. Iran under its constitution mandates representatives from the Jewish, Zoroastrian and Christian communities sit in their parliament.

"Siyamak More Sedgh is a Jewish Iranian politician and doctor who was the holder of the Iranian Parliament's reserved seat for the Jewish minority from 2008 to 2020, and is also the chairman of the Jewish charitable institution Dr. Sapir Hospital and Charity Center."

Although I suppose the argument that Iran is mostly Persian rather than Arab should be acknowledged.

Thanks SteeleRedux

Cheers

Pete

To plantagent particularly: Western interests - particularly the US who have been unsuccessfully trying to overthrow the secular democratically elected Syrian government and install a puppet regime using proxy terrorists have tried to claim President Assad - who seems to be in a sort of inherited position but is obviously very popular with his own people is a "brutal dictator". And have organised some unconvincing 'false flag" atrocities to try and "prove' this. I do not know whether there are or recently have been Jews elected to significant political positions in Syria. However most likely there is no legal barrier against them or people of any other particular religious or ethnic group who are Syrian citizens being election candidates.

Hi moxy

Your principled ignorance of any Jews in Syria's al-Assad Family Dictatorship, guided by the al-Assad's Alawite Islamic religion, is most odd.

On 17 July 2000, Bashar al-Assad became President, succeeding his father, who died in office a month prior. In the UNCONTESTED and NON-DEMOCRATIC 2000 and 2007 elections Bashar al-Assad received 97.29% and 97.6% support, respectively.

Don't election results of over 97% seem a little odd to you moxy?

On 16 July 2014, Assad was sworn in for another seven-year term after another NON-DEMOCRATIC election gave Assad 88.7% of the vote. The election was held only in areas controlled by the Syrian government during the country's ongoing civil war and was criticized by the UN, the Syrian opposition and Western countries, while Syria's allies, including Iran, Russia and Venezuela, stated that the election was "free and fair".

The Assad government describes itself as "SECULAR", while some political scientists have claimed that the government exploits sectarian tensions in the country and relies upon Bashar al-Assad's own Alawite Muslim religious minority to remain in power.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad