re: #66 Buck

Arab citizens in Israel (about 20% of the total population) are granted the same rights as Jewish citizens under law.

I am surprised you don’t know that?

I do know that. I also know that there’s an upper limit on the number of non Jewish Arabs Israel can absorb and remain a majority Jewish state. The Arab citizens of Israel were made citizens because of the laws in place during the handover from the British.

Such denizens who were still within the territorial confines of Israel after the war were granted full Israeli citizenship. In order to determine who was eligible for citizenship under this provision, the state of Israel conducted a population registration in 1952 and again in the 1980s. Those found to meet the requirements obtained Israeli citizenship. For purposes regarding modern Israeli citizenship, this section is usually irrelevant.

Like any democracy, if they are citizens.

They have the right to apply for citizenship. Even if they don’t they are entitled to municipal services, and have municipal voting rights.

So if Judea and Sumeria are annexed shouldn’t citizenship be granted automatically? The borders will have expanded to absorb the population in situ.

I understand that currently Israeli citizenship is granted on the basis of jus sanguinis and not jus solis. Naturalization for non Jewish residents is at the sole discretion of the Ministry of Interior. Additionally, under current law Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens are banned from attaining citizenship themselves.

Therefore it’s reasonable to believe, should annexation occur, that significant hurdles exist to Israel simply absorbing the Palestinian population like they did previously with the Arabs already within their borders at the time of the nation’s founding.