David Novak - For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although pr...

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For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is the question of human rights.

David Novak

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Für diejenigen, die sich den Staat Israel als eine Demokratie angesehen haben, die zwar in erster Linie ein jüdisches Gemeinwesen für Juden ist, in dem Nichtjuden Bürger werden können und mit der jüdischen Mehrheit gleiche Bürgerrechte haben, ist die Frage des Naturrechts die Frage der Menschenrechte.

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