Now it's a basic law: The State of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people

[Humanity]

Israel, IMHO, is not a true democracy. Democracies treat all citizens equally. Israel doesn't!

The equality of all citizens of Israel is firmly entrenched in law.

So why doesn't it then?

Treat all citizens equally? It does.

Clearly it doesn't! Just two examples...

Opinion | Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal

Knesset disqualifies bill seeking equal status for Jews and Arabs

 

[Shusha]

Israel, IMHO, is not a true democracy. Democracies treat all citizens equally. Israel doesn't!

The equality of all citizens of Israel is firmly entrenched in law.

So why doesn't it then?

Treat all citizens equally? It does.

Clearly it doesn't! Just two examples...

Opinion | Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal

Knesset disqualifies bill seeking equal status for Jews and Arabs

The first is a discussion of the differences in treatment of an Israeli citizen and a foreign national. Irrelevant to the topic.

The second is a bill seeking to undermine the protection of the Jewish character of the State. That is not "equality". That is erasure.

Edited to add: though I would love to see the text of that Bill

 

[Shusha]

I do wonder why this clause was removed, though, from the Israel Basic Law bill which passed. Seems one that should have remained.

Preserving heritage

A. Every citizen of Israel, regardless of their religion or nationality, has the right to actively preserve their culture, heritage, language and identity.

 

[RoccoR]

RE: Now it's a basic law: The State of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people
※→ P F Tinmore, et al,

"Palestine" is just an old Regional Name.

(A LITTLE STORY)

I was born in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains (205,000-square-mile), along the Allegheny River (actually the Allegheny County Hospital). Every school kid of that era and from that region was taught, at one time or another, that the word "Allegheny" (in the language of the Deleware Indian) meant the region of Western Pennsylvania. And while there are ancient Delaware Indian Mounds sprinkled on both the Eastern and Western slopes of the Appalachian Mountains, there is no sovereign Delaware Indian Tribal Lands, the indigenous people that ranged over the Appalachian Mountains (and more). It was the Conquistador, Hernando de Soto, who named the mountain range "Appalachian" after one of the first large-scale Indian villages (the Apalachee) that he discovered on his survey expedition. While there are still people with a lineage to the Delaware Indians, there are no decedents of the "Apalachee" today. And I will admit that I cannot successfully hunt deer, I am an "Appalachian."

Just because I am "Appalachian" → does not mean I have some sort of "Appalachian" citizenship or nationality. And just because I, and millions of other born Appalachians, have the "rights to sovereignty and territorial integrity" (just like Arab Palestinians), does not mean that we may claim sovereignty, have sovereignty or were even denied sovereignty.

BUT! The cultural region is still called "Appalachia."

I agree, the Arab Palestinians have never surrendered any territory, because they have never had any sovereign territory to surrender.

Then why does the UN call it Palestine and claim that they have territorial integrity?

(COMMENT)

The UN calls the region "Palestine" for much the same reason as Americans call "Appalachia" → well, Appalachia... It was a Region defined by the agreed upon (artificial) boundaries established by the Allied Powers... "The limits of this Order are the territories to which the Mandate for Palestine applies, hereinafter described as Palestine." And in less than two years, it will be the Centennial of the San Remo Convention that laid the framework and underpinning for the first "Palestine Order in Council" and the "Mandate for Palestine."

WHY? Because the Ottoman Empire/Turkish Republic renounced all rights and title over the territories over which the Ottoman Empire/Turkish Republic had sovereignty, to the Allied Powers. The Treaty recognized that the future of the territories being settled or to be settled by the parties concerned.

Most Respectfully,
R

 

[Shusha]

Quoting Eugene Kontorovich

"The objections to the laws are, themselves, discriminatory. To say that the Jews in Israel can not exercise their national self-determination to create a polity with a corporately Jewish character while preserving individual rights is to deny Jews rights that nations throughout the world and throughout Western European democracies enjoy. It is to create a special disability for Jews. And it is not an answer to say that there is a 20% minority because there are minorities everywhere. We just don't read about them in the New York Times quite so much. Latvia, they are highly regarded as a very liberal democracy, they have nation state provisions that are significantly bolder than the ones in this Basic Law. They have a 25% Russian minority. They are generally not citizens and can not easily get citizenship. Official language reflects the majority. Days of rest reflect the majority religion. So the question is why does an Arab minority disable the Jewish majority from having the kind of symbolic laws, the kind of expressive laws, that other Western democracies have? It can't be anything about the laws because nobody complains about them when they are passed in Spain (and Spain has laws which are in many ways more obnoxious than these) so that means that it must not be something about the laws but about the Jews."

 

[Humanity]

Israel, IMHO, is not a true democracy. Democracies treat all citizens equally. Israel doesn't!

The equality of all citizens of Israel is firmly entrenched in law.

So why doesn't it then?

Treat all citizens equally? It does.

Clearly it doesn't! Just two examples...

Opinion | Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal

Knesset disqualifies bill seeking equal status for Jews and Arabs

The first is a discussion of the differences in treatment of an Israeli citizen and a foreign national. Irrelevant to the topic.

The second is a bill seeking to undermine the protection of the Jewish character of the State. That is not "equality". That is erasure.

Edited to add: though I would love to see the text of that Bill

1950 law about confiscation of Absentee Landlord Property. This law defines persons who were expelled, fled, or who left the country after November 29, 1947 as “absentee.” Property belonging to “absentees” was placed under the control of the State of Israel with the Custodian for Absentees’ Property. The Absentee Property Law was the main legal instrument used by Israel to take possession of the land belonging to the internal and external Palestinian refugees, and Muslim Waqf properties across the state. This law continues to be used to this day by quasi-governmental agencies in Israel to take over Palestinian properties in East Jerusalem, for example.


1950 Law of Return. This allows every Jewish person to immigrate to Israel and this extends to the children and grandchildren of Jews, as well as their spouses, and the spouses of their children and grandchildren. The flip side of this is that the rights of Palestinians and others to enter the state and become citizens, even if they were born in the area that is now the State of Israel, are extremely restrictive. This discrimination against the non-Jewish minority has been periodically reinforced. For example, the ban on family unification law of 2003 prohibits citizens of Israel from reuniting with Palestinian spouses living in the West Bank or Gaza.


In 1952 the state authorized the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency, and other Zionist bodies founded at the turn of the 20th century to function in Israel as quasi-governmental entities in order to further advance the goals of the Zionist movement, to the detriment of minorities.


The Land Acquisition Law of 1953 transferred the land of 349 Arab towns and villages—approximately 1.2 million dunams in all (~468 square miles)—to the state to be used preferentially for the Jewish majority.


In 1953, the Knesset bestowed governmental authorities on the Jewish National Fund (JNF or Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael) to purchase land for exclusively Jewish use. The state granted financial advantages, including tax relief to facilitate such purchases.


In 1960, the state passed a law which stipulates that the ownership of “Israel lands”—namely the 93% of land under the control of the state, the Jewish National Fund, and the Development Authority—cannot be transferred in any manner.


In 1969, the state passed a law that gave statutory recognition to cultural and educational institutions, and defined their aims, inter alia, as developing and fulfilling Zionist goals to promote Jewish culture and education at the expense of minority goals.


There is a law mandating that Knesset session must be opened with a reading of portions of Israel’s declaration of independence that emphasizes the exclusive connection of the state of Israel to the Jewish people.


There is a law that bans any political party that denies the existence of Israel as a “Jewish” state. In other words, a party that would advocate equal rights for all citizens of Israel irrespective of ethnicity would not be allowed to enter the Knesset.
There are laws that establish separate educational systems which are then unequally administered.


In 2011 the Knesset passed a law that empowers hundreds of local Jewish communities to exclude applicants based on ethnicity or religion. The Supreme Court upheld this law in September 2014.


In 2011 the Knesset passed a law prohibiting anyone from calling for a boycott of Israel, its institutions, or any person because of their affiliation with Israel, including the settlements in the occupied territories. The law creates a private right of action for persons targeted by a boycott to sue for damages. As Noam Sheizaf puts it: “You can boycott anything in Israel except the occupation.” This vague law is blatantly aimed at Palestinians who are supportive of the BDS movement—while it allows people like Avigdor Lieberman to call for boycott of Arab owned businesses with impunity. The law was upheld by Israel’s Supreme Court on April 15, 2015.

 

[Humanity]

The second is a bill seeking to undermine the protection of the Jewish character of the State

I'm intrigued as to how you come to this conclusion?

 

[Shusha]

The second is a bill seeking to undermine the protection of the Jewish character of the State

I'm intrigued as to how you come to this conclusion?

I haven't been able to find the actual text of this bill. But press releases and interviews with the writers suggest that it denies the Jewish character of the State and provides for TWO NATIONALITIES thereby undermining the rights of the Jewish people to independent self-determination and sovereignty. I also understand it will remove Jewish character from all national symbols and while it will retain Hebrew as one of the national languages, will deny the right of Jewish return.

As I said, I haven't been able to find the actual text. If you find it, do please post.

 

[Humanity]

The second is a bill seeking to undermine the protection of the Jewish character of the State

I'm intrigued as to how you come to this conclusion?

I haven't been able to find the actual text of this bill. But press releases and interviews with the writers suggest that it denies the Jewish character of the State and provides for TWO NATIONALITIES thereby undermining the rights of the Jewish people to independent self-determination and sovereignty. I also understand it will remove Jewish character from all national symbols and while it will retain Hebrew as one of the national languages, will deny the right of Jewish return.

As I said, I haven't been able to find the actual text. If you find it, do please post.

The text of the bill stated its objective was "to anchor in constitutional law the principle of equal citizenship while recognising the existence and rights of the two, Jewish and Arab, national groups living within the country"

Your assumptions in relation to the wording of the bill simply reinforce the imbalance, the lack of equality!

 

[Shusha]

The equality of all citizens of Israel is firmly entrenched in law.

So why doesn't it then?

Treat all citizens equally? It does.

Clearly it doesn't! Just two examples...

Opinion | Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal

Knesset disqualifies bill seeking equal status for Jews and Arabs

The first is a discussion of the differences in treatment of an Israeli citizen and a foreign national. Irrelevant to the topic.

The second is a bill seeking to undermine the protection of the Jewish character of the State. That is not "equality". That is erasure.

Edited to add: though I would love to see the text of that Bill

1950 law about confiscation of Absentee Landlord Property. This law defines persons who were expelled, fled, or who left the country after November 29, 1947 as “absentee.” Property belonging to “absentees” was placed under the control of the State of Israel with the Custodian for Absentees’ Property. The Absentee Property Law was the main legal instrument used by Israel to take possession of the land belonging to the internal and external Palestinian refugees, and Muslim Waqf properties across the state. This law continues to be used to this day by quasi-governmental agencies in Israel to take over Palestinian properties in East Jerusalem, for example.


1950 Law of Return. This allows every Jewish person to immigrate to Israel and this extends to the children and grandchildren of Jews, as well as their spouses, and the spouses of their children and grandchildren. The flip side of this is that the rights of Palestinians and others to enter the state and become citizens, even if they were born in the area that is now the State of Israel, are extremely restrictive. This discrimination against the non-Jewish minority has been periodically reinforced. For example, the ban on family unification law of 2003 prohibits citizens of Israel from reuniting with Palestinian spouses living in the West Bank or Gaza.


In 1952 the state authorized the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency, and other Zionist bodies founded at the turn of the 20th century to function in Israel as quasi-governmental entities in order to further advance the goals of the Zionist movement, to the detriment of minorities.


The Land Acquisition Law of 1953 transferred the land of 349 Arab towns and villages—approximately 1.2 million dunams in all (~468 square miles)—to the state to be used preferentially for the Jewish majority.


In 1953, the Knesset bestowed governmental authorities on the Jewish National Fund (JNF or Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael) to purchase land for exclusively Jewish use. The state granted financial advantages, including tax relief to facilitate such purchases.


In 1960, the state passed a law which stipulates that the ownership of “Israel lands”—namely the 93% of land under the control of the state, the Jewish National Fund, and the Development Authority—cannot be transferred in any manner.


In 1969, the state passed a law that gave statutory recognition to cultural and educational institutions, and defined their aims, inter alia, as developing and fulfilling Zionist goals to promote Jewish culture and education at the expense of minority goals.


There is a law mandating that Knesset session must be opened with a reading of portions of Israel’s declaration of independence that emphasizes the exclusive connection of the state of Israel to the Jewish people.


There is a law that bans any political party that denies the existence of Israel as a “Jewish” state. In other words, a party that would advocate equal rights for all citizens of Israel irrespective of ethnicity would not be allowed to enter the Knesset.
There are laws that establish separate educational systems which are then unequally administered.


In 2011 the Knesset passed a law that empowers hundreds of local Jewish communities to exclude applicants based on ethnicity or religion. The Supreme Court upheld this law in September 2014.


In 2011 the Knesset passed a law prohibiting anyone from calling for a boycott of Israel, its institutions, or any person because of their affiliation with Israel, including the settlements in the occupied territories. The law creates a private right of action for persons targeted by a boycott to sue for damages. As Noam Sheizaf puts it: “You can boycott anything in Israel except the occupation.” This vague law is blatantly aimed at Palestinians who are supportive of the BDS movement—while it allows people like Avigdor Lieberman to call for boycott of Arab owned businesses with impunity. The law was upheld by Israel’s Supreme Court on April 15, 2015.

Well, that is a lot for one post. And I won't have time to address them all. But I will say that most of those laws do not actually discriminate against the individual rights of minority persons in Israel.

For example, the fact that much of the land in Israel is owned by the State and not by individuals is not discriminatory of itself. A law which prevents people from denying Israel as a State for the Jewish people does not create a system of unequality between individual members of the State. It does nothing to curtail individual rights and freedoms. Separate education systems do not discriminate against individuals and, in fact, is a point of expression of equality in permitting the minorities of Israel to have their own education system, according to their own culture and values and in their own language. That creates equality, not denies it.

If you wanted to pick one or two of these laws to go into more depth in, I'd be willing.

 

[Shusha]

The second is a bill seeking to undermine the protection of the Jewish character of the State

I'm intrigued as to how you come to this conclusion?

I haven't been able to find the actual text of this bill. But press releases and interviews with the writers suggest that it denies the Jewish character of the State and provides for TWO NATIONALITIES thereby undermining the rights of the Jewish people to independent self-determination and sovereignty. I also understand it will remove Jewish character from all national symbols and while it will retain Hebrew as one of the national languages, will deny the right of Jewish return.

As I said, I haven't been able to find the actual text. If you find it, do please post.

The text of the bill stated its objective was "to anchor in constitutional law the principle of equal citizenship while recognising the existence and rights of the two, Jewish and Arab, national groups living within the country"

Your assumptions in relation to the wording of the bill simply reinforce the imbalance, the lack of equality!

Equal individual rights is already embedded in the law of Israel. The point of the nationality law is to express and protect the Jewish nationality uniquely. This does not in any way harm the rights of minorities within the state.

As noted in my quote from Eugene K, no other country is disabled in this way.

 

[P F Tinmore]

RE: Now it's a basic law: The State of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people
※→ P F Tinmore, et al,

"Palestine" is just an old Regional Name.

(A LITTLE STORY)

I was born in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains (205,000-square-mile), along the Allegheny River (actually the Allegheny County Hospital). Every school kid of that era and from that region was taught, at one time or another, that the word "Allegheny" (in the language of the Deleware Indian) meant the region of Western Pennsylvania. And while there are ancient Delaware Indian Mounds sprinkled on both the Eastern and Western slopes of the Appalachian Mountains, there is no sovereign Delaware Indian Tribal Lands, the indigenous people that ranged over the Appalachian Mountains (and more). It was the Conquistador, Hernando de Soto, who named the mountain range "Appalachian" after one of the first large-scale Indian villages (the Apalachee) that he discovered on his survey expedition. While there are still people with a lineage to the Delaware Indians, there are no decedents of the "Apalachee" today. And I will admit that I cannot successfully hunt deer, I am an "Appalachian."

Just because I am "Appalachian" → does not mean I have some sort of "Appalachian" citizenship or nationality. And just because I, and millions of other born Appalachians, have the "rights to sovereignty and territorial integrity" (just like Arab Palestinians), does not mean that we may claim sovereignty, have sovereignty or were even denied sovereignty.

BUT! The cultural region is still called "Appalachia."

I agree, the Arab Palestinians have never surrendered any territory, because they have never had any sovereign territory to surrender.

Then why does the UN call it Palestine and claim that they have territorial integrity?

(COMMENT)

The UN calls the region "Palestine" for much the same reason as Americans call "Appalachia" → well, Appalachia... It was a Region defined by the agreed upon (artificial) boundaries established by the Allied Powers... "The limits of this Order are the territories to which the Mandate for Palestine applies, hereinafter described as Palestine." And in less than two years, it will be the Centennial of the San Remo Convention that laid the framework and underpinning for the first "Palestine Order in Council" and the "Mandate for Palestine."

WHY? Because the Ottoman Empire/Turkish Republic renounced all rights and title over the territories over which the Ottoman Empire/Turkish Republic had sovereignty, to the Allied Powers. The Treaty recognized that the future of the territories being settled or to be settled by the parties concerned.

Most Respectfully,
R

"Palestine" is just an old Regional Name.

It was until 1924 when the Palestinians acquired their nationality, Palestine acquired territory defined by international borders, and the Palestinians became citizens of Palestine.

The Treaty recognized that the future of the territories being settled or to be settled by the parties concerned.

"Or to be settled by the parties concerned" was not mentioned in the Treaty of Lausanne, nor was it mentioned in Article 22 if the LoN Covenant.

 

[Shusha]

The equality of all citizens of Israel is firmly entrenched in law.

So why doesn't it then?

Treat all citizens equally? It does.

Clearly it doesn't! Just two examples...

Opinion | Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal

Knesset disqualifies bill seeking equal status for Jews and Arabs

The first is a discussion of the differences in treatment of an Israeli citizen and a foreign national. Irrelevant to the topic.

The second is a bill seeking to undermine the protection of the Jewish character of the State. That is not "equality". That is erasure.

Edited to add: though I would love to see the text of that Bill

1950 law about confiscation of Absentee Landlord Property. This law defines persons who were expelled, fled, or who left the country after November 29, 1947 as “absentee.” Property belonging to “absentees” was placed under the control of the State of Israel with the Custodian for Absentees’ Property. The Absentee Property Law was the main legal instrument used by Israel to take possession of the land belonging to the internal and external Palestinian refugees, and Muslim Waqf properties across the state. This law continues to be used to this day by quasi-governmental agencies in Israel to take over Palestinian properties in East Jerusalem, for example.


1950 Law of Return. This allows every Jewish person to immigrate to Israel and this extends to the children and grandchildren of Jews, as well as their spouses, and the spouses of their children and grandchildren. The flip side of this is that the rights of Palestinians and others to enter the state and become citizens, even if they were born in the area that is now the State of Israel, are extremely restrictive. This discrimination against the non-Jewish minority has been periodically reinforced. For example, the ban on family unification law of 2003 prohibits citizens of Israel from reuniting with Palestinian spouses living in the West Bank or Gaza.


In 1952 the state authorized the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency, and other Zionist bodies founded at the turn of the 20th century to function in Israel as quasi-governmental entities in order to further advance the goals of the Zionist movement, to the detriment of minorities.


The Land Acquisition Law of 1953 transferred the land of 349 Arab towns and villages—approximately 1.2 million dunams in all (~468 square miles)—to the state to be used preferentially for the Jewish majority.


In 1953, the Knesset bestowed governmental authorities on the Jewish National Fund (JNF or Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael) to purchase land for exclusively Jewish use. The state granted financial advantages, including tax relief to facilitate such purchases.


In 1960, the state passed a law which stipulates that the ownership of “Israel lands”—namely the 93% of land under the control of the state, the Jewish National Fund, and the Development Authority—cannot be transferred in any manner.


In 1969, the state passed a law that gave statutory recognition to cultural and educational institutions, and defined their aims, inter alia, as developing and fulfilling Zionist goals to promote Jewish culture and education at the expense of minority goals.


There is a law mandating that Knesset session must be opened with a reading of portions of Israel’s declaration of independence that emphasizes the exclusive connection of the state of Israel to the Jewish people.


There is a law that bans any political party that denies the existence of Israel as a “Jewish” state. In other words, a party that would advocate equal rights for all citizens of Israel irrespective of ethnicity would not be allowed to enter the Knesset.
There are laws that establish separate educational systems which are then unequally administered.


In 2011 the Knesset passed a law that empowers hundreds of local Jewish communities to exclude applicants based on ethnicity or religion. The Supreme Court upheld this law in September 2014.


In 2011 the Knesset passed a law prohibiting anyone from calling for a boycott of Israel, its institutions, or any person because of their affiliation with Israel, including the settlements in the occupied territories. The law creates a private right of action for persons targeted by a boycott to sue for damages. As Noam Sheizaf puts it: “You can boycott anything in Israel except the occupation.” This vague law is blatantly aimed at Palestinians who are supportive of the BDS movement—while it allows people like Avigdor Lieberman to call for boycott of Arab owned businesses with impunity. The law was upheld by Israel’s Supreme Court on April 15, 2015.

I'll make another statement, generally, about these laws which are labelled discriminatory, and that is one of the "zero sum game" which is frequently employed by Team P. The zero sum games states that there can only be one winner and in all instances where rights are gained by one group, there is a corresponding loss in rights by another group. This is a false premise. There is no zero sum game in operation here. The expression of a Jewish nationality is not, of itself, a rejection or a diminishing of other nationalities. The expression of Jewish culture and history and language does not negate other cultures and languages and history. The protection of Jewish rights, as an example, to prayer and worship and presence at Jewish Holy Places says nothing about the rights of other peoples at their own Holy Places, even if those two Holy Places share space or overlap in space.

If you look at the wording of the laws listed above, you will see how language is used to create this false zero sum game:

"...to the detriment of"
"...the flip side is ... extremely restrictive"
"...to be used preferentially"
"...at the expense of minority goals"
"...unequally adminstered"

The fundamental expression of the law itself does not discriminate based on ethnic background or religion. Its is the assumption that the expression of one people's rights are a denial of the other people's rights that creates the illusion of disparity where there is none. Each of these laws is described as being discriminatory -- but the discrimination only becomes visible AFTER one applies the zero sum game rule.

 

[Shusha]

"Or to be settled by the parties concerned" was not mentioned in the Treaty of Lausanne, ...

You really should not even attempt to go up against Rocco with respect to factual information. It will never serve you well. He spins circles around you with his knowledge.

The actual text of the Treaty of Lausanne:

ARTICLE I6.

Turkey hereby renounces all rights and title whatsoever over or respecting the territories situated outside the frontiers laid down in the present Treaty and the islands other than those over which her sovereignty is recognised by the said Treaty, the future of these territories and islands being settled or to be settled by the parties concerned.

The provisions of the present Article do not prejudice any special arrangements arising from neighbourly relations which have been or may be concluded between Turkey and any limitrophe countries.


"or to be settled by the parties concerned" is literally the exact words from the Treaty.

 

[Shusha]

It was until 1924 when the Palestinians acquired their nationality, Palestine acquired territory defined by international borders, and the Palestinians became citizens of Palestine.

Yes. And yes. And yes.

And that Palestine (after Jordan was removed) became, according to the Parties Concerned by virtue of historical rights, was established as the reconstitution of the National Homeland (State) of the Jewish people and has subsequently been re-named Israel through their Declaration of Independence and given recognition by the international community.

 

[P F Tinmore]

"Or to be settled by the parties concerned" was not mentioned in the Treaty of Lausanne, ...

You really should not even attempt to go up against Rocco with respect to factual information. It will never serve you well. He spins circles around you with his knowledge.

The actual text of the Treaty of Lausanne:

ARTICLE I6.

Turkey hereby renounces all rights and title whatsoever over or respecting the territories situated outside the frontiers laid down in the present Treaty and the islands other than those over which her sovereignty is recognised by the said Treaty, the future of these territories and islands being settled or to be settled by the parties concerned.

The provisions of the present Article do not prejudice any special arrangements arising from neighbourly relations which have been or may be concluded between Turkey and any limitrophe countries.


"or to be settled by the parties concerned" is literally the exact words from the Treaty.

Sorry, I was thinking of something else.

 

[P F Tinmore]

It was until 1924 when the Palestinians acquired their nationality, Palestine acquired territory defined by international borders, and the Palestinians became citizens of Palestine.

Yes. And yes. And yes.

And that Palestine (after Jordan was removed) became, according to the Parties Concerned by virtue of historical rights, was established as the reconstitution of the National Homeland (State) of the Jewish people and has subsequently been re-named Israel through their Declaration of Independence and given recognition by the international community.

Where was exclusive Jewish state mentioned?

 

[Shusha]

It was until 1924 when the Palestinians acquired their nationality, Palestine acquired territory defined by international borders, and the Palestinians became citizens of Palestine.

Yes. And yes. And yes.

And that Palestine (after Jordan was removed) became, according to the Parties Concerned by virtue of historical rights, was established as the reconstitution of the National Homeland (State) of the Jewish people and has subsequently been re-named Israel through their Declaration of Independence and given recognition by the international community.

Where was Jewish state mentioned?

What difference does it make? What wording is required in order for a state to form? Or what wording prohibits a state from forming? You are trying to create a standard for a Jewish state that doesn't apply to any other Palestinian or former Ottoman state.

 

[Shusha]

Sorry, I was thinking of something else.

Fair. That happens sometimes. No worries.

 

[USAF 2023]

It was until 1924 when the Palestinians acquired their nationality, Palestine acquired territory defined by international borders, and the Palestinians became citizens of Palestine.

Yes. And yes. And yes.

And that Palestine (after Jordan was removed) became, according to the Parties Concerned by virtue of historical rights, was established as the reconstitution of the National Homeland (State) of the Jewish people and has subsequently been re-named Israel through their Declaration of Independence and given recognition by the international community.

Where was exclusive Jewish state mentioned?

Here we go again!!