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Finally, after seven years of debate, the Israeli parliament on Thursday approved a text that came under the category of fundamental laws that make up the Constitution in Israel, a country without Magna Carta, which defines it as "state". Nation of the Jewish People ", which led to accusations of" racism "against the minority on the part of the Arab bloc, despite the last-minute amendment to a controversial article.
During the debates, the Arab MP Ayman Odeh reached a peak with a black flag on the platform to testify to "the death of our democracy", and his colleague Yusef Jabareen said that he encouraged "not only discrimination but also racism, and perpetuate the lower status of Arabs in Israel ", 20% of 8.6 million inhabitants
The Hebrew State acts as" a colonial movement, which continues the Judaization of the land and continues to steal the rights of its owners ",
The European Union also says it is" worried "about a law that could" complicate "the two-state solution to the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which began 70 years ago. years ago, when Israel created its state on the lands of the British Mandate Palestine with the UN agreement but refused to allow the Palestinians to do the same in their portion of territory increasingly occupied by Israel.
According to the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Saeb Erakat, the text "officially legalizes apartheid" against the Palestinian Arab population.
According to Piotr Smolar, Jerusalem correspondent of the French newspaper Le Monde the law is an "identity mark" long promoted by the Israeli right wing according to the ancient idea of making Israel "The national home of the Jewish people".
He adds that the text brings together in other laws the elements already included in the Declaration of Independence of 1948 and reviews the attributes of sovereignty such as the flag, the national anthem and the Jewish calendar.
more sensitive clauses, "he adds, defining Jerusalem as Israel's" complete and unified capital, "when the status of the holy city should not be changed, according to an international consensus, but at the end of the peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
"He also degrades the Arabic language to a special status, being now the only official language of Hebrew," notes Smolar. Finally, he says, he gives a "national value" to the development of Jewish settlements – in Arab lands – that the state "should promote" against the UN, which declared these settlements "illegal" .
Debate since 2011 in various forms by the deputies, "the law was the pretext for the implosion of the government late 2014 and the call for early elections by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu," recalls Smolar. He adds that "his opponents consider that the balance between democratic principles and the Jewish nature of the state is threatened".
Jordan, which has signed a peace treaty with Israel and administers the holy sites of Christians, Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem, denounces "a law that consecrates racial discrimination", "distorts the prospects for peace" and "encourages extremism and violence ".
Since the creation of Israel in 1948, no law on official languages has been pbaded. Hebrew and Arabic were until then considered as almost official languages, used in all state documents, but the new law only makes the Hebrew official.
Public radio pointed out that of the 120 deputies of the Knesset (parliament), 45 opposition Jewish parliamentarians voted against.
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