12-2-2014 Netanyahu’s Inflammatory New Bill - Bernard Avishai The New Yorker

 

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/netanyahus-nation-state?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=twitter&mbid=social_twitter

 

…No wonder that a vexed coalition, which includes not only Peres, but also the current President, Reuven Rivlin, a Likud member, have rejected the law, implicitly encouraging Yair Lapid and Tzipi Livni, centrist members of Netanyahu's cabinet, to ally themselves with Labor and stand their ground. If it comes to an election, it will be best for democratic forces to unify, not only around what Israel does, but what Israel is. Israelis not in the thrall of settler fanaticism need to decide whether they want to be part of the democratic Western world or not. The Jewish nation-state law puts the choice starkly: a globalist Hebrew republic or a little Jewish Pakistan.

 

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

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