“Democratic”? “Ally”?
Israel is a totalitarian dictatorship, no better than China.
They outright reject the Enlightenment and universal human rights. They are not part of the West at all.
Capitalism Civilizes
"Participation in capitalist markets and bourgeois virtues has civilized the world. It has 'civilized' the world in more than one of the word's root senses, that is, making it 'citified,' from the mere increase in a rich population. It has too, I claim, as many...
