(Washington Times) Julia Duin - Knesset Minister and former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, speaking at the University of Maryland Wednesday during a tour of 13 U.S. and Canadian college campuses, said: Israel does not deserve its reputation on some college campuses as a human rights violator but should instead be lauded as the Middle East's lone bastion of democracy. Arab countries can embrace democracy; political analysts used to say Japan and Russia were not capable of democracy either. I know Israel demonstrates more sensitivity to human rights than any other democracy in the world. Only in Israel, women have full rights; in the other countries of the region, women cannot travel without the permission of their husbands. People of different sexual orientations [are protected]. Only in Israel, Arab members of Parliament can freely criticize their country.
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