re: #250 Alouette

I don’t think that everyone who supports Israel is a cheerleader for each and every policy of the ruling government.

Whatever you may think of the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding Israeli citizenship, can you at least agree that each country has the right to determine its own requirements for citizenship? If a Japanese citizen marries a foreign national who is also an Occidental, does that person receive automatic Japanese citizenship? Do you even know, or care, what the requirements are for receiving Japanese citizenship? If Japanese deny citizenship to Occidentals or Koreans who marry Japanese, would you get all worked up about it?

If a foreigner marries a Japanese citizen, that foreigner has two years to declare which of two citizenships he/she shall have. Japan does not allow dual citizenship in general, but solely due to being born of parents having different citizenships (and then only to the age of 20) or as a transition in cases such as marriage or other integration.

Note that this is a somewhat different situation from the one that gets me in regard to Israel. Not allowing Arabs born outside Israel to have citizenship on marriage might be defensible. Not allowing Arabs born in the areas Israel controls to have citizenship even if they marry Israelis is slightly different.

Would I get all worked up about the Japanese? Frankly, it depends. One reason I get all worked up about Israel is the huge proportion of our strategy that is engaged in maintaining that nation’s existence.