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July 25, 2006

Israel, Palestinians, Lebanon--A War among Democracies?

There is considerable violence -- what some are calling a war -- between the democratically elected Hamas Palestinian government and democratic Israel; and Israel is engaged in a war with Hezbollah in the south of Lebanon, which apparently had a democratic election in May, 2005. Is this a falsification of the democratic peace theory that democracies don't make war on each other?

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Posted by Rudy at July 25, 2006 10:07 PM