National Security Language Initiative
Alina Israeli
aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
Sun Jan 15 18:23:34 UTC 2006
>What about American Jews who are de facto also Israelis? No other nation ha
>s that exception.
I think you are confusing de-facto with de-jure. They (actually, not just
they but all Jews, in fact even those who have 1/4 Jewish blood, i.e. those
who were subject to the nazi laws of extermination) may become de-jure
Israelis BUT the law that states that is the law of another country, namely
that of Israel. They (the Jews or 1/4 Jews) have not pledged allegiance to
Israel as a state.
Incidentally, this is similar to Mormons counting everyone among their own,
baptizing dead Catholics and dead Jews, although it is done with a
different purpose: Israel laws potentially protect Jews from another
extermination and the Mormons are boosting their ranks.
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Alina Israeli
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Washington, DC 20016
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