Democracy isn't binary and doesn't start and end with elections. It is not democratic, for instance, for a president to subvert the powers of Congress (whose members also won their elections).

Both the US and Israel don’t recognize the International Criminal Court, in contrast to the overwhelming majority of democracies worldwide.

I’m not saying they’re not democracies, just that they would be *more democratic* if they would fully comply with the ICC.

This Alliance has standards and actually would stand for concrete values, rather than just strategic convenience.