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2006-11-05 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Minister Lieberman Calls for Separation from Arabs

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-05 10:33|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Lieberman should propose a two-tiered justice system. In addition to any criminal matter, the court could find for a sentence of transportation out of Israel for Arab Israelis. That is, once an Arab Israeli's criminal punishment had been served, they could be deported, as unsuited for residency.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-05 10:41|| 2006-11-05 10:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds fair, only they might as well apply it to Jews, too. They have enough kosher gangsters to display when AI accuses them of picking on Arabs.

The Greeks (and other peoples of the same era) used exile as a punishment for what we'd consider non-capital felonies. I can't say I'd mind seeing some of America's worst dumped outside our borders, especially if the destination was someplace like Pakistan.

On the other hand (curse this rationality!), Liberman's bad news in that Israel will either succeed as a secular state or it will fall onto the ash heap of history. The day of the religious state is gone. The people trying to bring it back are the enemy. Israel as a Hebrew-speaking state I can take, Israel as a composite Ashkenazi-Sephardic or even Yiddish cultural state I can take. As a state where you're required to adhere to any religion or to belong to an exclusive race -- sorry guys. That's our parting of the ways.

Posted by Fred 2006-11-05 11:53|| 2006-11-05 11:53|| Front Page Top

#3 The day of the religious state is gone. The people trying to bring it back are the enemy. Israel as a Hebrew-speaking state I can take, Israel as a composite Ashkenazi-Sephardic or even Yiddish cultural state I can take. As a state where you're required to adhere to any religion or to belong to an exclusive race -- sorry guys. That's our parting of the ways.

Author! Author! Theocracy is the enemy of liberty, no matter what form it takes.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-05 14:03|| 2006-11-05 14:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Israel is not a religious state, any more than the US is. Yes, on the key Jewish holidays Israeli government offices are closed, as US government offices are closed on Christmas, but private companies are not required to observe the same closures. Nor are the laws of Judaism legally binding upon all, or even upon Jewish Israelis. There are plenty of atheist Israelis, and like atheist Americans, they are equally law abiding, equally respected, and fully equal in the eyes of the law. Just because the Muslims have great difficulty separating religion and State (as once again Turkey, the best hope for change, swings closer to theocracy while the pashas weigh the necessity of stepping in to reset things) does not mean the Jews do.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-05 22:08|| 2006-11-05 22:08|| Front Page Top

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