In order to understand a certain country and know how decisions are made in it and who really affects and can decide, we need to analyze and try to configure who runs this country and how he or she keeps on controlling the state.Actually this kind of understanding a certain system differs from a country to another because it depends on the kind of ruling and the way people are represented in each country, for example Iran is not a democratic country and this gives its leaders or President much more power than an other democratic country that the power in it is always connected to the people or the Parliament members who represented the people. However some say that it is difficult to understand the full meaning of the word democracy, but at the same time it is easy to see a kind of democracy in a certain state.Israel for example is a state that works upon a good system of democracy that leaded to the end of several prime ministers when they tried to work over the democracy and take decisions independently without returning to the people.On the other side if we look at Iran, the system there is not a democratic, and this gave the Iranian president Ahmadi Najad much more power to decided and face the dangers from around him without returning every time to the people’s council and satisfy them all according to what they believe in whether they were against his Nuclear project or with.In general it is clear that a non democratic country gives its president more power than a democratic one and this affects on the system and the way the country is leaded, but does this mean that a democratic country is a better one and is fair with its people? Lets look at Iraq: isn’t Sadam Hussein’s way or ruling this country better than the new democratic system that resulted in killing thousands of Iraqis until today and don’t we sometimes need a firm leader so the laws could be made and protected.Even Israel the democratic state had prime ministers such as Sharon that succeeded in manipulating the system and forcing his ministers to vote for his decisions when he decided to withdrew from Gaza.A perfect democratic system could result in bringing out a week President that will share his decisions with many others and these others could be by mistake enemies or working for the benefit of a foreign country, but a middle democratic system with a strong president that knows how to take his decisions and make them become reality is the perfect kind of a controlling system.

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad

A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is a former President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.

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