New NSO spyware scandal triggers alarm 'Israeli democracy closer than ever to demise'
20 Jan 2022; MEMO: Critics of Israel have long maintained that the occupation state's claim to being "the only democracy in the Middle East" is a deceitful fabrication, peddled to score political points in the West. Insisting Israel is far from being a democracy, they would point to the seemingly never-ending occupation, and the countless human rights violations that inevitably follow, in trying to keep millions of people, who happened to be of a different race, under political subjugation.