but it does allow for admission of a state by Resolution of the General Assembly.

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Mr.K, why the Palestinians don't want to recognize Israel as a Jewish State only the STATE OF ISRAEL

I believe that your sidenote is very necessary since, apparently, many people —including many in Israel— have difficulty to understand the fact and its consequences.

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[…] Here's a quote from a recent article by the Israeli peace platform "Gush Shalom" leader Uri Avnery:

"But the Knesset is about to enact a law that demands from every non-Jew who desires Israeli citizenship to swear allegiance to “The State of Israel, the Nation-State of the Jewish people”. It seems that our benighted law-makers do not see anything questionable about this."[emphasis by katlpablo]
From The State of Bla-Bla-Bla 16/10/10

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[…] my post and Avnery's article which are about the project by the Israeli parliament —the Knesset— to enact a law that requires from every person —Jewish or non-Jewish— who desires Israeli citizenship to swear allegiance to “The State of Israel, the Nation-State of the Jewish people”.

If we imagine that new citizens of the US had to swear allegiance to "The Constitution of the United States, the Nation-State of the Christian people" it would seem —to say the least—, strange, apart from contradictory since the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion not a Nation-State for the Christians.

Avnery —to point out the clumsiness of the Israeli idea— suggests that if the US were to enact a law like the one Israel proposes to enact, ([let us substitute] "of the Jewish people" with for example "of the Christian people") the new law could even be understood as if it proposed that the US would be the nation-state of all Christians in the world (or in the galaxy, for that matter!).

Avnery uses the example to show the undemocratic space that could open up in Israel in enacting such law, since not all Israelis are Jewish.

This is why i welcome here and in a previous post padmavyuha's sidenote: "not everyone who is Israeli is Jewish."…

Ury Avnery is your only Encyclopedia to consult about all your anti-israel posts?

Encyclopedia?

Here's another Encyclopedia you can consult:

World-renowned public intellectual, MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, U.S.A. disident, Noam Chomsky

February 17, 2011
"Democracy Uprising" in the USA?

Video — Part 1
“Democracy Uprising” in the U.S.A.?: Noam Chomsky on
•Wisconsin’s Resistance to Assault on Public Sector, the
•Obama-Sanctioned Crackdown on Activists, and the
•Distorted Legacy of Ronald Reagan.

Video — Part 2
“Democracy Uprising” in the U.S.A.?: Noam Chomsky on
•Civil Rights,
•Obama,
•Latin America, and the
•History of the U.S. in the Middle East.

Hurry-up !