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December
2014 AD
The Theocracy of Israel
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KAFR
QASSEM, Israel (Reuters) - Israel is poised to pass one of the most
divisive laws in its 66-year history, a bill that would declare it the
homeland of the Jewish people only -- and further alienate its Arab
minority.
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The legislation, which is
seen as compromising equality by differentiating between Jewish and
non-Jewish citizens in enshrining some symbolic rights to the Jewish
people, could also have long-term practical ramifications for Israeli
democracy and jurisprudence.
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Netanyahu,
along with other right-wing politicians pushing the law, say it is
essential to protecting Israel's identity against those questioning its
right to exist.
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Centrists
in his government argue such legislation is unnecessary, noting the
1948 Declaration of Independence already proclaimed a Jewish state.
They accuse him of pandering to hardliners in his Likud party.
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"With this law, the state will be less democratic and more racist," said Arab legislator Jamal Zahalka.
Israeli Arabs make up 20 percent of the population of 8.2 million and have long complained of being treated a second-class citizens. |
Offer Israeli Arabs money to move to Palestinian state: LiebermanJERUSALEM
(Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman proposed on
Friday that Arab citizens of Israel be offered financial incentives to
leave the country and relocate to a future Palestinian state.
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Lieberman, one of the most strident voices in favor of the separation of Jews and Arabs, said Palestinians living in Jaffa and Acre, two mixed cities on the Mediterranean coast far from the West Bank, should be encouraged to move if they want. |
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"Those (Israeli Arabs) who decide that their identity is Palestinian will be able to forfeit their Israeli citizenship and move and become citizens of the future Palestinian state," he wrote in the manifesto, entitled Swimming Against the Stream, published on his Facebook page and his party's website. |
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"Israel should even encourage them to do so with a system of economic incentives," he said. |
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Lieberman has in the past called on Israeli Arabs, who make up about 20 percent of Israel's 8 million population, to take a loyalty oath if they want to remain in Israel, a measure that Netanyahu denounced at the time. |
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But Netanyahu is now backing a contentious bill that would define Israel as the Jewish nation state and enshrine certain rights for Jews. Critics say it would discriminate against Arab-Israelis and put religion and ethnicity above democracy. |
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A poll carried out in 2010, after Lieberman addressed the United Nations and set out plans for the borders of a future Palestinian state to be redrawn to include Arab towns in Israel, showed that 58 percent of Israeli Arabs opposed the idea. |
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