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Blatant Israeli Racism--Again
HAIRY
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New Law for Israeli-Palestinian Couples
Thursday July 31, 2003 4:39 PM
By GAVIN RABINOWITZ
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's parliament on Thursday passed a new law that would force Palestinians who marry Israelis to live separate lives or move out of Israel despite charges from human rights groups and Israeli Arabs that the law is racist.
The law would prevent Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip who marry Israeli Arabs from obtaining residency permits in Israel.
The vote was 53 in favor, 25 against and one abstention, a spokeswoman for the parliament said.
``We see this law as the implementation of the transfer policy by the state of Israel,'' said Jafar Savah from Mossawa, an advocacy center for Israeli Arabs, referring to a plan by far right groups to transfer Israeli Arabs to other Arab countries.
Savah said the law was an attempt to legalize unofficial policy that has been in effect since September 2000 when violence broke out and warned that the law would damage relations between Israel and its Arab minority.
Both local and international human rights groups have condemned the law as racist.
``This is a racist law that decides who can live here according to racist criteria,'' said Yael Stein from the Israeli rights group B'tselem.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have sent letters to the parliament protesting the law and urging lawmakers not to pass it, a statement from Human Rights Watch said.
Israel's government contends that such a law is necessary for security reasons, citing instances where Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza have exploited their residency permits, granting them freedom of movement in Israel, to carry out terror attacks.
``This law comes to address a security issue,'' Cabinet Minister Gideon Ezra told Israel Radio. ``Since September 2000 we have seen a significant connection, in terror attacks, between Arabs from the West Bank and Gaza and Israeli Arabs,'' Ezra said.
Israel and the Palestinians have been locked in a bloody conflict for 33 months, though a cease-fire declared by the Palestinians on June 29 has significantly reduced violence.
The law, which passed its first reading on June 18, would force newly married couples to choose between living in the Palestinian areas or living separately and would be in effect for a year when the parliament must renew it.
It is not uncommon for members of Israel's 1 million strong Arab community to marry residents of the Palestinian areas, and this was one of the only ways a Palestinian could be eligible for an Israeli residency permit.
Ezra told the radio that since 1993 over 100,000 Palestinians have obtained Israeli permits in this manner. ``It has grown out of control,'' he said.
Stein from B'tselem said there have been only 20 cases from these 100,000 people who have been involved in terror.
``I am not taking these attacks lightly but this is an extreme solution to a marginal phenomenon,'' Stein said.
Ezra turned aside charges that the law was racist, saying ``I agree that anyone who kills Jews just because they are Jewish is a racist.''
Rights groups accused Israel of trying to rush the bill through parliament before it goes into recess on August 3.
It's not what you know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know that just ain't so!
Resident Pyrrhonist
Thursday July 31, 2003 4:39 PM
By GAVIN RABINOWITZ
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's parliament on Thursday passed a new law that would force Palestinians who marry Israelis to live separate lives or move out of Israel despite charges from human rights groups and Israeli Arabs that the law is racist.
The law would prevent Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip who marry Israeli Arabs from obtaining residency permits in Israel.
The vote was 53 in favor, 25 against and one abstention, a spokeswoman for the parliament said.
``We see this law as the implementation of the transfer policy by the state of Israel,'' said Jafar Savah from Mossawa, an advocacy center for Israeli Arabs, referring to a plan by far right groups to transfer Israeli Arabs to other Arab countries.
Savah said the law was an attempt to legalize unofficial policy that has been in effect since September 2000 when violence broke out and warned that the law would damage relations between Israel and its Arab minority.
Both local and international human rights groups have condemned the law as racist.
``This is a racist law that decides who can live here according to racist criteria,'' said Yael Stein from the Israeli rights group B'tselem.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have sent letters to the parliament protesting the law and urging lawmakers not to pass it, a statement from Human Rights Watch said.
Israel's government contends that such a law is necessary for security reasons, citing instances where Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza have exploited their residency permits, granting them freedom of movement in Israel, to carry out terror attacks.
``This law comes to address a security issue,'' Cabinet Minister Gideon Ezra told Israel Radio. ``Since September 2000 we have seen a significant connection, in terror attacks, between Arabs from the West Bank and Gaza and Israeli Arabs,'' Ezra said.
Israel and the Palestinians have been locked in a bloody conflict for 33 months, though a cease-fire declared by the Palestinians on June 29 has significantly reduced violence.
The law, which passed its first reading on June 18, would force newly married couples to choose between living in the Palestinian areas or living separately and would be in effect for a year when the parliament must renew it.
It is not uncommon for members of Israel's 1 million strong Arab community to marry residents of the Palestinian areas, and this was one of the only ways a Palestinian could be eligible for an Israeli residency permit.
Ezra told the radio that since 1993 over 100,000 Palestinians have obtained Israeli permits in this manner. ``It has grown out of control,'' he said.
Stein from B'tselem said there have been only 20 cases from these 100,000 people who have been involved in terror.
``I am not taking these attacks lightly but this is an extreme solution to a marginal phenomenon,'' Stein said.
Ezra turned aside charges that the law was racist, saying ``I agree that anyone who kills Jews just because they are Jewish is a racist.''
Rights groups accused Israel of trying to rush the bill through parliament before it goes into recess on August 3.
It's not what you know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know that just ain't so!
Resident Pyrrhonist
Comments
Israel's mentality is hypocritical to say the least. If people were forcing Jews to do what they are forcing Palestinians to do, the cries of anti-Semitism would be deafening. But if they do it, it's okay. After all, the Holocaust was carte blanche for them to treat others as they please, right?
But hey, fair is fair. There are no victims but Jewish victims. WMDs are bad (unless they're in Israeli hands). And it's only genocide if the people being killed are Jewish.
Mind you, I'm not bashing all Jews or all Israelis. But I find it loathsome in the extreme that a handful of zealots have managed to turn Israeli foreign and domestic policy into the handbook for the Fourth Reich.
....If you have to shoot...SHOOT!...don't talk!
Same when we have a vote here on something controversial, but the majority is how it works isn't it?
While Jews are quick to use the smear terms; Bigot, Racist and Anti Semite as a reaction to criticism, they are as intolerant of outsiders
as anyone.
"ethnic cleansing".
There's one country that knows how to protect it's borders. That's why they will be around a long time after we're forgotten about.
"Save the Whalers, they need jobs too."
And I totally agree with the sentiments about having stronger borders. If you've ever been to Southern Cal. you'll agree with me...
psalms 16
I am sick and tired of these groups who critise and never, ever look at anything but threw their filter of ingrained socal activism.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
psalms 16
psalms 16
Loyalty to UN, NO
But since the UN hates Jews too, I figure you like the UN. Now you're going to have to staighten me out on something before I can be a right thinking * my white brother, just what about jews is not white? They look white to me. ?????
"What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith,1787.
"They that can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
If God didn't want us to eat animals, then he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
"What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith,1787.
"They that can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
If God didn't want us to eat animals, then he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
There's one country that knows how to protect it's borders. That's why they will be around a long time after we're forgotten about.
X-RING!!
quote:Originally posted by bmbuzlr:
When this planet is rid of Jews and Arabs, it will be a better world for the rest of us.
An equal opportunity racist.
quote:originally posted by jsergovic:
I can't reply until DWS weighs in..
I too am simply giddy in anticipation of the great event.[|)][|)]
The Bush administration sends tens of thousands of American military to protect the sovereignty of nations around the world, while trading our own sovereignty for hispanic votes!
I know I'll get stoned for his comment. So throw away.
There's one country that knows how to protect it's borders. That's why they will be around a long time after we're forgotten about.
"Save the Whalers, they need jobs too."
No stones here. I agree.
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