Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to push his bill to change the nation’s Basic Laws to define Israel as an exclusively Jewish State, despite growing signs that the wildly controversial bill is splitting the coalition, and indeed the nation.
The bill is a variant of a proposal that would’ve made the same definition, but guaranteed equal rights for all ethnic and religious minorities. Netanyahu’s version removed all mentions of equal rights.
The initial bill was widely opposed, and the new version is even moreso, with many believing the move is an effort to explicitly end Israel’s claims to be both a “Jewish” and “Democratic” state by cementing one in law at the expense of the other.
That’s fueled a backlash among politicians as well as the general public, and President Reuven Rivlin was the latest to come out against it today, insisting the bill serves no purpose and creates new problems for Israel, particularly surrounding the split between Jewish and Democratic statehood.
The timing of the bill is also problematic, coming amid growing tensions with the nation’s Arab minority. The effort to effectively define them as second-class citizens by law isn’t going to set well, even if the bill ultimately fails.
Instead of pretending to be a ‘Jewish Democracy” – a contradiction in terms, the Jewish State admits that it is a theocracy guided by Jewish racial supremacist ideology.
The zionazi abomination in occupied Palestine has always been a state for Das Herrenwolk, the master race, and now it´s official. That´s a good start to end this Frankenstein monster on constant US life support – and finally pull out the plug.
It still says Palestine on my map.
'Separate, but not equal.'
Just as differences (ideological and racial) seem to be pushing the US to a crisis point of dysfunction, the Jews in Israel are likewise rushing toward crisis that doesn't involve any of their neighbors, for a change.
The Hebrew Klansmen strike again.
Hopefully they have modified the pointy white sheets so it allows them to wear their kippah or the yarmulke so we know they are the jewish members of the KKK.
Divides the nation my a**, it has been the goal ever since this monster was created. Everything else was to get world's sympathy and to guarantee support of the left leaning western populations at that time. But now the fake conservatives rule the US Israel can show its true face to its true supporters. May both of them burn in hell for eternity.
Too bad Rivlin isn't PM, but if he was some psychotic right wing nut job settler would take him out like they did to Rabin for daring to make peace. There are a lot of pro-peace process israeli's who do not support the settlement expansion or the blockade of Gaza, but unfortunately the crazies are running the show over there.
Israel unfortunately is following thief right wing over the cliff.
The Roman named the province for the coastal population when they occupied the place. Their word for the 'Philistines' was 'Palestinians'. In Hebrew the word for 'palestinians' is the same as 'Philistines.' Think about how bad that is, when you have a PM and political parties that take the book of Judges seriously.