Clause 7 in the citizenship law would say: “If either a man or his wife is an Israeli citizen, the spouse may acquire Israeli citizenship by naturalization as long as he isn’t an Arab.”īut Shaked and the right are no less hypocritical than the left. If Shaked and the right had been honest, the amendment to the citizenship proposal would make it clear that Arabs are prohibited from being naturalized. Knesset backs Palestinian family unification ban in first of three votesĮxplained: The controversial law that endangers the new Israeli governmentįamily unification bill meant to stop Palestinian 'creeping right of return,' Israel's Shaked says What we should be doing now is rebuking the government and the Knesset for lying in the wording of the law and for hiding its purposes, instead of delighting in the confession after the act of the liar in chief. The defense establishment and the Shin Bet are collaborating in this deceit, which will involve continuing the pretense in the High Court of Justice to defend the proposal, and in the court’s turning a blind eye to passing a racist, apartheid law par excellence, whose declared goal isn’t its real goal. What’s happening here is a constitutional act of deceit that involves both political camps. So where exactly are the honesty and sincerity, or the explicit racism of Shaked and the right? They are lying in the very drafting of the bill. The Shin Bet security service is mentioned seven times and the terror threat six times. The word security, on the other hand, appears in it 34 times. An attempt to reduce the motivation to migrate to Israel? Nothing and nada. Demographic considerations? Not even hinted at. Officially, the restrictions in the citizenship law stem from security reasons, and are intended to prevent Palestinians who gain Israeli citizenship through marriage from becoming involved in terror.įear of a creeping right of return? Not a word. But whoever reads Shaked’s bill won’t find in it even a single word about demographic considerations.

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