Dear Israel,
President George W Bush’s road map is the last chance for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We Israelis are faced with the following choices: a two-state solution, enshrined in the road map, whereby a predominantly Jewish state lives alongside a Palestinian state; mass deportation of Palestinians from the occupied territories and Gaza strip; or an apartheid state whereby a minority governs over a majority using brute force.
The law approved
week in the Knesset banning Palestinians from marrying is in line with an apartheid state. This is as far a deviation from the intention of the founding fathers of Zionism as I could imagine. Is this the kind of state you long for? — Roman,
Dear Roman,
What you have written is defamatory to Israel as a nation and as a state, and especially to the Knesset of which you are a member. The Knesset did not decide “to ban Palestinians from marrying’’. It decided — and only as a temporary provision for one year — not to grant Palestinians that marry Israeli citizens automatic citizenship. This was decided after the police in the past year discovered more than 30 terror cells run by Israeli Arabs, some of whom were Palestinians who married Israelis and consequently received Israeli citizenship...
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