That's handled by having essentially no civil marriage in Israel. (I'm told that Cyprus is the preferred spot for marriages Israel doesn't permit.) There are a lot of round-about systems for maintaining the racialist nature of the state -- e.g., privileges made available to veterans, who include almost all Israelis and very few others. --CGE
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Max Sawicky wrote:
> Civil marriage between Jew and non-Jew is "not allowed" in Israel?
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> Can a Falasha Ethiopian refugee marry an Askenazi? And if so, is this
> not racial inter-marriage?
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> Of course there are preferences for religious groups (e.g., yeshiva
> students) but much more important are the privileges for one racial
> group, the majority of whom are not religious. As the late Israel
> Shahak was wont to point out, Israel within the Green Line is a racist
> state, with laws similar to those of apartheid South Africa: e.g.,
> racial identity cards must be carried, no intermarriage is allowed
> with the dominant racial group, and none but members of that group can
> own land in more than 93% of the national territory. --CGE
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> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Michael Perelman wrote:
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> > The first step would be to make it a secular state with no preferences for
> > religious groups.