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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran
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To: Chas. who wrote (6775)1/18/2005 6:11:23 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (2) of 22250
 
Re: this was done to protect those Arabs from being [blackmailed by Palestinian activists]

Wrong since current laws already provide for screening would-be residents --excerpt from the Haaretz article:

The Citizenship Law in its old form allowed the state to examine closely every immigrant and anyone who wanted to settle here. The gradual naturalization process enabled the state to grant status over the course of years of temporary visitor, temporary resident and permanent resident until it granted citizenship status, and to examine each potential immigrant from every possible angle - health, criminal, security and economic - and the law allowed the state to reject requests for citizenship on a variety of grounds. The citizenship tests for non-Jews were always strict, but the new law cancels all the tests and prefers a sweeping, disproportional denial of citizenship to Arabs from outside the country.
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The new law is merely a demographic stopgap, not a safeguard against possible terrorist sleepers. Indeed, if Israeli authorities really wanted to prevent its Arab citizens from being blackmailed by Hamas, Jihad, etc. they would allow married Arab citizens to bring in as many of their kinsfolk as they wish: when all the family resides in Israel it's much easier for Shin Bet to track them.
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