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Real democracy?

A new initiative encourages Israelis to pair up with Palestinians and vote on their behalf.

Israeli-Arab man casts his vote [file photo]
Photo by: Ammar Awad / Reuters
"I’m Aya, age 28. I am an Israeli citizen and I wish to give my vote to a Palestinian citizen,” writes Aya Shoshan on the Facebook page of Real Democracy – an online group of Israelis, Palestinians and internationals whose stated goal is “to provoke thought, dialogue and a political change” that will result in an equal democracy.

“Giving my vote is a symbolic act; if Palestinians are not part of this democracy, then neither am I,” writes Shoshan.

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