@theone86: When did I say they are bastions of democracies? They certainly are not. But they both certainly are true elective democracies with comparatively high degrees of freedom.
Singular acts presented separate from the context of the whole political system, with your own twist to it, does not make a country authoritarian.
Freedom of political choice and participation, freedom of speech and press, freedom of religion etc. That's all textbook liberalism.
The point is that if you think Poland and Israel belongs on the authoritan state table, then, for that to be true, it has to be a very big table with around 150 countries on it.
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