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Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses
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#34It's certainly interesting how an oppressed people became the oppressor.
It happened time and time again in history. See Christianity in the Roman Empire, for example, or at least half a dozen revolutions. Or the Balkans.
Oppressed people are not better because they are oppressed. They are still human and perfectly able to persecute others depending on the context.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
This article fails to explain the reasons for which proponents believe that marriage with Palestinians would threaten security or Jewish character of the country, failing the supposed neutrality of the article or compromising the supposed quality of journalists in charge of investigating this.
Then please enlighten us, what's the rationale?
There have been cases of Israeli citizens marrying terrorists to get them into the country. Though this law is an overreaction. It's one thing to do background checks and impose a waiting period on Palestinian spouses, but a total ban is ridiculous.
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#36“JAFFA, March 10 (Reuters) - Israel’s parliament on Thursday passed a law denying naturalization to Palestinians from the occupied West Bank or Gaza married to Israeli citizens, forcing thousands of Palestinian families to either emigrate or live apart.” Abhorrent but not about preventing marriages, at least not directly
Not useful analysis.
It is useful. Regardless of the virtue - or strong lack thereof - of the new law, the current headline here is misleading about what was actually passed.
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This law has nothing to do with intermarriage for Jews. That's effectively prohibited by other existing laws.
This law tries to prevent Muslims and Christians living in non-annexed occupied territories from marrying other Muslims and Christians living outside of Israel's effective control area.
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#38No shame, they don't even hide their racism. Where's the outcry.
The outcry is right here, obviously,
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#39So, 21% of Israel's population has restrictions on who they could marry all so that they can maintain a majority of the favored demographic.
This is apartheid.
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#40Does this law also need a yearly reauthorization? The makeup of the Knesset doesn't seem to have radically changed since the law failed in July, anyone know how this try suddenly got an overwhelming majority?