Fact-full, easily read. Unarguable. Link-brooklyn13, Israel’s hugely controversial “nation-state” law, explained Related: The U.S.-Israel Relationship No Longer Makes Sense [...]In U.S. political discourse, it is axiomatic that Israel is in a constant struggle for survival. But this narrative is an anachronism. Israel is in a better strategic position than ever, and its sovereignty is beyond question. Let’s take a tour around the region: Israel has peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. It has normal relations with Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates. The Israelis also have informal ties with Saudi Arabia. Qatar allows Israeli diamond traders to do business in Doha, and Oman has recently agreed to open its airspace to Israel’s airliners. P - Along with its Arab partners, the United States, and Europe, Israel has managed to marginalize the Palestinian question. [...] ...for Israeli Arabs, who make up one-fifth of Israel’s 9 million citizens .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/19/one-more-racist-law-reactions-as-israel-axes-arabic-as-official-language , the new law was a slap in the face. When the law passed, Arab parliamentary members ripped up copies of the bill and shouted, “Apartheid,” on the floor of the Knesset (Israel’s parliament). P - Ayman Odeh, the leader of a coalition of primarily Arab parties currently in the opposition, said in a statement that Israel had “passed a law of Jewish supremacy and told us that we will always be second-class citizens.” [...] Here’s what the new law actually says It’s worth breaking down the three parts of the law and examining each one individually to get a better sense of what the law actually says, and what it all means: 1) “The right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.” This declaration doesn’t just say that Israel is the historic homeland of Jews, which is a core part of Zionist ideology .. https://www.vox.com/cards/israel-palestine/zionism .. and the argument for the Jewish state’s existence in what’s now Israel. Instead, this goes further to unequivocally state that Jews — and only Jews — have the exclusive right to “self-determination” within Israel. [...] 2) “Hebrew is the language of the state,” while the Arabic language “has a special status in the state.” [...] 3) The law mandates that the “state views Jewish settlement as a national value and will labor to encourage and promote its establishment and development,” without specifying where. This clause, interestingly, has angered both the law’s supporters and its opponents. The former say it doesn’t go far enough because it doesn’t specify Jewish settlements in the West Bank. [...] Internally, Netanyahu’s government has also restricted the space for political criticism, such as promoting laws that make it harder to fund human rights groups .. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/5-quick-points-on-israel-s-contested-ngo-law-1.5482801 .. and forbidding groups that criticize the military .. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Knesset-passes-bill-banning-Breaking-the-Silence-from-schools-543752 .. or occupation of Palestinian land from speaking in schools. [...]
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