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Until recently, the Israeli citizenship law said that if you marry a foreigner, you can bring him to Israel and he will automatically recieves citizen status.
Recently, the Israeli Parliament has added an exception, whereby Palestinian spouces will not recieve such a status. That comes after previous changes limiting spouces from other states currently in state of war with Israel, such as Lebanon.
This comes after several of the suicide bombers during the intifada, were discovered to have gained easy access to Israel, since they had double citizenship - both Israeli and Palestinian, usually as a result of a family tie to Israelis.
Due to the effectiveness of closures and limits on Palestinians entering Israel, terrorist organizations have turned to use more and more people with either double citizenship, or even Israeli arabs. An act which further tears up the already frickle situation between the Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel.
The arab MKs and the Palestinains of course, are making a huge deal out of it, as if it was a racial law and the arabs can't marry people, just because they are arab.
Then comes along CNN, and covers the issue - an inner Israeli political issue. The same CNN which never covers inner issues in the Palestinian Authority, such as the steps taken by Arafat to circumvent the limitations put on him by the Roadmap document, or the steps taken by Arafat to weaken Abu Mazen.
The CNN cover of course gave not-equal stage to the Arab and Jewish sides of the dispute, and even then, most of the Jewish interviewies were against the law, while those promoting it, were allowed only one or two phrases. This is factually incorrect since the majority of MKs and obviously the majority of Jewish MKs are supporting the law (or else it would have fallen!)
Then CNN finshes their report by showing a family of an Israeli Arab and a Palestinain Arab with their children, saying how it is unfair, and the reporter finishes: "And now they are waiting in fear for the possible knock on the door, to split the family in half". Completely ignoring the fact that the law is NOT RETRO-ACTIVE!!!! Thus no existing families will be broken up (unless unwed). But don't let facts get in the way of a CNN report
Recently, the Israeli Parliament has added an exception, whereby Palestinian spouces will not recieve such a status. That comes after previous changes limiting spouces from other states currently in state of war with Israel, such as Lebanon.
This comes after several of the suicide bombers during the intifada, were discovered to have gained easy access to Israel, since they had double citizenship - both Israeli and Palestinian, usually as a result of a family tie to Israelis.
Due to the effectiveness of closures and limits on Palestinians entering Israel, terrorist organizations have turned to use more and more people with either double citizenship, or even Israeli arabs. An act which further tears up the already frickle situation between the Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel.
The arab MKs and the Palestinains of course, are making a huge deal out of it, as if it was a racial law and the arabs can't marry people, just because they are arab.
Then comes along CNN, and covers the issue - an inner Israeli political issue. The same CNN which never covers inner issues in the Palestinian Authority, such as the steps taken by Arafat to circumvent the limitations put on him by the Roadmap document, or the steps taken by Arafat to weaken Abu Mazen.
The CNN cover of course gave not-equal stage to the Arab and Jewish sides of the dispute, and even then, most of the Jewish interviewies were against the law, while those promoting it, were allowed only one or two phrases. This is factually incorrect since the majority of MKs and obviously the majority of Jewish MKs are supporting the law (or else it would have fallen!)
Then CNN finshes their report by showing a family of an Israeli Arab and a Palestinain Arab with their children, saying how it is unfair, and the reporter finishes: "And now they are waiting in fear for the possible knock on the door, to split the family in half". Completely ignoring the fact that the law is NOT RETRO-ACTIVE!!!! Thus no existing families will be broken up (unless unwed). But don't let facts get in the way of a CNN report
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