Yeah, I know the election is way over, but I never got around to blogging this heartwarming picture of Israeli democracy in action.
(The photo was captioned someting like “Israeli soldier casts his vote.”)
UPDATE: My Israeli wife asked, “What’s the big deal about this picture?” I responded to the effect that the fact that you don’t think it’s a big deal explains why it’s a big deal. In the U.S., it took hundreds of years and much violence to win black Americans full civil rights, including the right to vote. With much public support, Israel over the past two decades welcomed poor, uneducated black Jews from Ethiopia, and provided them with full civil rights. The picture above appeared in an Israeli newspaper, as an unremarkable election-related scene.
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