Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is demanding that the Palestinians must recognise Israel as the "state for the Jewish people" as a precondition to the restarting of peace talks that have been on hold as long as Captain Codpiece has been President of the US.
Why do I think this is a bit much? Israel doesn't have a constitution and therefore hasn't yet formally recognised itself as the "state for the Jewish people". It hasn't done this because to commit to writing what is the philosophy behind and policy of the state would be to expose the inherent racism that underlies everything. One need go no further than their immigration policy which denies citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their land by the creation of Israel whilst at the same time granting citizenship to any Jew from anywhere in the world even though there is no association between these people and Palestine/Israel in the past thousand years or more.
Why do I think this is a bit much? Israel doesn't have a constitution and therefore hasn't yet formally recognised itself as the "state for the Jewish people". It hasn't done this because to commit to writing what is the philosophy behind and policy of the state would be to expose the inherent racism that underlies everything. One need go no further than their immigration policy which denies citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their land by the creation of Israel whilst at the same time granting citizenship to any Jew from anywhere in the world even though there is no association between these people and Palestine/Israel in the past thousand years or more.
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