The renewal of this controversial law, whose suspension had failed to bring down the Government of Naftali Bennett in July 2021, constitutes a camouflet for its left wing.
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The Israeli Parliament has renewed, Thursday, March 10, the prohibition of the naturalization of Israeli spouses from countries considered enemies. This law so-called “citizenship” mostly affects thousands of Palestinian couples including one of the members coming from West Bank or Gaza. It had been suspended in July 2021, because of the parliamentary blur that had followed the formation of the new government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Past urgently in 2003 in the heart of the second intifada for a period of one year, this text is officially presented as a safe law, aimed at avoiding the freedom of movement that Israeli citizenship confers on terrorists potential. Renewed every year, it quickly coated an ethnocentric character. “It’s a tool to make sure Israel remains a country for Jewish”, had even declared the centrist Yaïr Lapid, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the current government, in July 2021.
In July, during the annual renewal of this legislation, the Likoud – Party of the former Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, apart from the coalition – and its ultra -orthodox and ultra -orthing religious partners had gone against their own line. ideological and voted against the text. They had justified their decision by saying that the government, based on a heterogeneous coalition gathering right, left and an Arab party, was Himself a danger for Israel, and that to bring it down was a “duty Zionist”.
Thursday, this improbable window closed, just before the spring parliamentary truce. The right wing of the executive, taken by the Minister of the Interior, Ayelet Shaked, had led intense negotiations with his enemy brothers of the opposition. After the vote, it tweeted that it was the victory of the concept of “Jewish and Democratic State on that of State for all its citizens,” the motto of most Israeli Arab parties.
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This is especially a political victory for the right figures in the coalition, which thus consolidate their position. By managing to pick up the songs with the Likud, “Shaked and [Prime Minister] Naftali Bennett also send a message to the left parties:” We do not need you “”, Analysis Aida Touma-Suleiman, MP United Arab List, an opposition party. Despite this camouflet, the coalition holds: Person on the left did not slam the door, despite a unanimous opposition to the law. “They all have too much to lose,” regrets M me Touma-Suleiman.
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