Amos Schocken : Citizenship law makes Israel an apartheid state
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Title:Labhras # 5 How Could That Be?
Name:Jeff Northridge
City: Penn ValleyState: California
Howdy Labhras;

How could Israel be an apartheid state unless you admit that Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip are Israeli sovereign territory? I don`t think that you want to go that far. I`m not sure if this law is discriminatory towards Israeli Arabs or not since I have heard that a foreign spouse of an Israeli citizen regardless of his/her religion has a really hard time immigrating to Israel unless the spouse qualifies under the Law of Return.

It used to be fairly easy for a foreign spouse of an American to immigrate to the U.S., but the system was abused when foreigners would marry an American abroad and then get a divorce after they got here so the rules have been tightened up a bit. Every sovereign country has the right to determine its own immigration policy.

There is no such thing as a "binational state". States are, by definition, uninational (if that`s a word).