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Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz
I think it was not a necessary law to pass. Look everybody knows Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people. If you want to pass a basic law, you just pass a law incorporating the brilliant declaration of independence of Israel, which talks about equal rights for all.
I don't think there was a need to have a basic law declaring what everybody knows. It only gives ammunition to the opposition.
People who think this will help in Israeli Diaspora relations are wrong.
Comment: What a litigious schmuck. 'Everybody knows' Israel is an ethnocentric apartheid state, but to put it in writing just gives the 'opposition' ammunition to confirm it. Better to just stand behind the fiction of 'equal rights for all' enshrined in the Israeli declaration of independence (even though 'everyone knows' that's not actually true). At least Dershowitz is honest. He's not actually concerned about 'equal rights'; he's concerned about being able to defend apartheid using legal fictions.
To do that, Get the rabbis out of marriage and the law, and who is a Jew, that's the way to improve Israel-Diaspora relations. But this law is "unnecessarily provocative" and "a mistake."
Look I don't think anybody doubts that Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people. Of course the criticism of it is hypocritical, coming from the Palestinians. They declare Palestine to be an Islamic state governed by sharia law, where no Jew can buy property or be a citizen. That's really racist. I mean, almost all the Arab countries are Muslim states. But I didn't see any reason for enacting this law on Israel's 70th anniversary. I think it was a mistake.
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