(Ha'aretz) Khaled Diab - TV theologian Yusuf al-Qaradawi, whose program on Al Jazeera has an estimated audience of 60 million, expressed, back in the 1990s, admiration for the achievements of Israeli democracy: "We hope that our countries will become like this country [Israel]." Why? "There, it is the people who govern. There, they do not have the 'four nines' which we know in our countries," referring to the 99.99% of the vote with which Arab dictators once used to "win" elections.
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