>
>In one sense, Israel has one of the most immigration policies on earth.
>Anyone willing to be converted by an orthodox rabbit can immigrate there,
>including your Palestinian friends.
>
>Most consider changing their religion too high a price for citizenship, but
>then Jews throughout history were forced to convert to gain full rights, as
>many people in Islamic societies have had to convert to gain full rights
>given to the majority religion. But the fact is that every Palestianian
>could return to Israel and get citizenship if they were willing to convert
>to Judaism, which might be an interesting mass strategy :)
>
>In that sense, Israel is not an ethnic state - since it does not require
>blood ties - but an ideological state in that you must pledge allegiance to
>a certain set of religious beliefs in order to immigrate there.
>
>But countries around the world have far more racist immigration rules than
>Israel, since many people would have no right to citizenship no matter what
>changes in beliefs they might swear to.
>
>Nathan Newman
>nathan at newman.org
>http://www.nathannewman.org
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:27 PM
>Subject: RE: The nation of jews...
>
>
>
>On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Max Sawicky wrote:
>
> > They belong to Israel if they want to. Remember, it's not a
> > race/biology thing.
>
>
>Then why can't my friend Ahmed go to Israel under the Law of Return?
>
>(My friend Siobhan wants to Return, too.) --CGE
>
>
>
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