You are oblivious to the fact that Israel has two rights systems. There are citizens rights where all citizens have (more or less) equal rights. Then there are nationality rights. Only the Jewish nationality has access to these rights
Only the Jewish people have nationality rights IN ISRAEL. Others have nationality rights elsewhere. That is actually how the global system currently works. Citizens have national rights in their nation.
Are you suggesting that the Jewish people should have nationality rights in Palestine? Or not?
Arab Israeli citizens have nationality rights where?
Arab Palestinians have nationality rights in a hopefully if they can get their act together future state of Palestine.
Arab Israelis can exercise their Israeli nationality in Israel.
A nationality is formed around a culture. You aren't suggesting that Arab Israeli is a separate and distinct culture from Arab Palestinian, are you?
I am to the degree that they've formed something of their own culture with regional differences including dialect, we did talk about that in other threads and doubtless don't agree . But it's irrelevant.
Israel is a new state, imposed on a region with multiple ethnic groups already residing there. It has since decided create a "nationality" law that only includes ONE of those groups despite the fact that most of those groups have been in that region since ancient history. As a state does Israel have the right to do that? Yes. Any state does. Does it make it right? That is questionable. How can you maintain equality?
Think about it - you are citizen of Israel. You have served in the IDF, defended your country, supported it, and were born there. But now - because you are NOT Jewish - you do not have any "national rights" there. There is no way to look at that and not somehow see yourself as a different category of citizen. As an outsider or somehow less than. Why should you fight for Israel and defend it?
Nationality - Wikipedia
Nationality is a legal relationship between an individual person and a state.[1] Nationality affords the state jurisdiction over the person and affords the person the protection of the state. What these rights and duties are varies from state to state.[2]
By custom and international conventions, it is the right of each state to determine who its nationals are.[3] Such determinations are part of nationality law. In some cases, determinations of nationality are also governed by public international law—for example, by treaties on statelessness and the European Convention on Nationality.
Nationality differs technically and legally from citizenship, which is a different legal relationship between a person and a country. The noun national can include both citizens and non-citizens. The most common distinguishing feature of citizenship is that citizens have the right to participate in the political life of the state, such as by voting or standing for election. However, in most modern countries all nationals are citizens of the state, and full citizens are always nationals of the state.[1][4]
In older texts, the word nationality rather than ethnicity, often used to refer to an ethnic group (a group of people who share a common ethnic identity, language, culture, descent, history, and so forth). This older meaning of nationality is not defined by political borders or passport ownership and includes nations that lack an independent state (such as the Arameans, Scots, Welsh, English, Basques, Catalans, Kurds, Kabyles, Baloch, Berbers, Bosniaks, Kashmiris, Palestinians, Sindhi, Tamils, Hmong, Inuit, Copts, Māori, Sikhs, Wakhi and Székelys).[citation needed]
Sorry, but the delusion that :
The Jews seem to be "imposing" their will on all other "ancient people" of the land.
There is no such thing.
The Jewish People are the most ancient of those people. The Palestinian Arabs are not. Neither would be the Greeks, the Romans or any other people who stayed after they invaded and conquered the land after the Jewish People had established themselves over 3000 years ago.
There are no Philistines.
There are no Amorites.
There are no Hitites, etc. to come and claim the land as the ancient people from that very place.
There are no Romans, Greeks, Crusaders claiming anything over the Jewish People's rights to their ancient homeland.
Are you to tell me that all people who now inhabit Kurdistan (even though not allow to declare Independence) have the same National rights as the descendants of the ancient Kurds?
Do the Yazidis who fled to that area have the right to demand some National rights to the land, which should only be for the Kurdish people?
It is a very simple example, which shows how the descendants of the Jewish People are the ones with the rights for any National self-determination definition on that land.
It does not take away one bit the rights of all of those who are not Jewish, and are either citizens or residents of Israel.
Their rights are written in the laws of the land.
What they do not have the right to do, as Arabs, etc, is to demand that Israel be their Ancestral national anything in place of the Jewish People's rights, which is Exactly what the Muslim Arabs have been doing in the past decades with their endless "The Jews are from Europe", "There was no Temple Mount", "There were no Jews in the area", etc, which continues to come hard and furious from the Arab side.
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Individual rights, Netanyahu said, are anchored in many of the Jewish state’s (existing) laws, but not so Jewish national rights. No one was harmed by the Nationality Law and no one intends to to harm anyone’s individual rights.
(full article online)
Netanyahu at Cabinet Meeting: Israel is the National State of the Jewish People, Exclusively
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The only reason why so many are complaining is because it is the State of the Jews.
Any other place on the planet, they will never care less.
