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| 'No automatic citizenship for Jews' |
| 2007-10-31 |
| Immigrant Absorption Minister Ya'acov Edri on Tuesday slammed Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit's proposal to cancel automatic Israeli citizenship to Jews. Although Sheetrit told reporters that Edri "agrees with the idea," a spokesperson for the absorption minister said Edri "completely disagrees, and never expressed any agreement. The minister is absolutely opposed to the suggestion, and the interior minister spoke of his own volition only." Appearing at the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors meeting in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Sheetrit said he believed "Israel should no longer grant automatic citizenship to Jews." He explained that "Israel should become like every other country. I want to see that [the immigrant] is not a criminal, that he's learning Hebrew; that he's here for five years before getting citizenship." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Nope. Israel was founded to be not only a homeland for the Jews, but a refuge of last resort in the event of another antisemitic regime like the Nazis, where again no other country would accept the masses of would-have-fled Jews. Remember that Hitler turned to the Final Solution only because he couldn't strip the Jews of their possessions and herd them abroad to pollute the enemies of Germany. And so Israel has proved. She's been the refuge of the Jews of the Middle East, of Ethiopia, and to some extent of the Soviet Union and now France. It's built into the founding of the country, and I don't think Interior Minister Sheetrit's little idea is going to go anywhere beyond the air just beyond his lips. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-10-31 12:04 |
| #2 It sounds to me like a good idea. Automatic citizenship is a bad idea in every country |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2007-10-31 10:05 |
| #1 It's long past time for this goverment to go. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2007-10-31 08:34 |