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What preferential rights? judaism being the offical religion doesn't give Jews preferential rights. Does Christianity being official religion in Switzerland give Swiss Christians preferential rights over Hindus? it doesn't. As long as the constitution guarantees equal treatment and rights for all, i don't see a problem with it? you are putting too much stress of Judaism being the state religion, i don't see that as a major problem at all. As i said Israeli Arabs are comfortable with it, 74 percent say they will agree to that.
Howelse can you guarantee the safety of the Jews then? considering every single neighbouring country is hostile towards them? and if Arab population exceeds 50 percent in Israel you reckon Jews will be safe in their own country? dude they hate the Jews period. Jews been driven out of Muslim countries for the past 100 years, this wont magically stop if Israel turns secular.
Eric Silver writes in the February, 1990 issue of Political Quarterly:
Israel’s Proclamation of Independence makes few concessions to the Almighty. The word ‘God’ does not appear, though there is a passing reference to trusting in the ‘Rock of Israel’. Israel, it decrees, will be a Jewish state, but the concept is nowhere defined. The state, it says, ‘will be based on the principles of liberty, justice and peace as conceived by the Prophets of Israel; will uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of religion, race, or sex; will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, education and culture; will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and will loyally uphold the principles of the United Nations Charter’.
Every student of modern Israel should reread the proclamation of May 14, 1948, at least once a year. It is a reminder of the secular vision of the founding fathers. Israel was to be a modern democratic state, an expression of Jewish nationalism rather than Jewish faith. The text reads as if the drafting committee was more familiar with the American and French revolutions than with the intricacies of Talmud. The phrase ‘as conceived by the Prophets of Israel’ is little more than rhetoric. Which of the Prophets were they talking about? Immediately after a clause proclaiming the ‘establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine’, the document promises that a constitution will be drawn up by a constituent assembly ‘not later than 1 October, 1948’. Forty-one years later, the people of Israel are still waiting, not least because of a reluctance by successive governments to define (and thus calcify) the Jewishness of the Jewish state.
Hence Israel is never a Jewish state, it doesn't matter what you think its NOT a Jewish state. Jewish home doesn't equal to Jewish state.
lord curzon and others involved in the League of Nations negotiations on the Palestine Mandate repeatedly say in their letters that they understand that a “Jewish National Home” did not imply a Jewish state nor did it imply that the rights of the indigenous Palestinians would be injured. The French and the Italians were extremely uncomfortable with the British position. To cite the British imperial mandate in favor of Mr. Netanyahu’s current push is to do violence to history.
The Arab League offered to recognize Israel within 1967 borders in 2002 and has since renewed the offer.
Okay, if they have equal rights can you explain who has the greater legal right to live in israel today?
1) a jew from russia whos family have live there for hundreds of years
2) a palestinian living in a jordanian refugee camp whos parents and grandparents were booted out when israel was created
The fact 2) gets told FOAD (literally) while a red carpet is laid out for 1) shows its not equal. Israel treats jews as its prime citizens, and tolerates the existance of arab israelis
Thats not equality, and its a standard that will perpetuate this shitfight