Livni Welcomes Rivlin's Criticism of Jewish State Law

ustice Minister Tzipi Livni, head of the Hatnua party, welcomed on Tuesday evening President Reuven Rivlin’s criticism of the controversial Jewish State Law.

Rivlin, who spoke at a conference earlier Tuesday, said, "The State of Israel is the national state of the Jewish people. A small, abhorred minority, undermine this fact, both from within our own and from outside, and so, we must ask ourselves seriously, what is the point of the proposed law - Israel: The National State of the Jewish People."

"Does the promotion of this law, not in fact, question the success of the Zionist enterprise in which we are fortunate to live? Does this proposal, not in fact encourage us to seek contradiction between the Jewish and democratic characters of the state?" asked Rivlin.

In attacking the law, Rivlin claimed, "Judaism and democracy, democracy and Judaism, said as one utterance, are combined, and continue to be so...Jewish is democratic and democracy is Jewish."

Responding to the remarks, Livni wrote on Facebook, "Ruby, a Likudnik with all his soul, a devout Zionist who loves this country with all his heart, said his inner truth on stage. There is no right and no left when it comes to the Declaration of Independence and our deep identity as a Jewish and democratic state.”

Livni continued, “There is a large camp - a Zionist camp - which is fighting against the ‘Tea Party’ of Israeli politics, a radical group that is ready to harm the values that are most important to us.

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Strikes me as an unnecessary argument. Israel's declaration of Independence is clear

ACCORDINGLY WE, THE MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE'S COUNCIL, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ERETZ-ISRAEL AND OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, ARE HERE ASSEMBLED ON THE DAY OF THE TERMINATION OF THE BRITISH MANDATE OVER ERETZ-ISRAEL AND, BY VIRTUE OF OUR NATURAL AND HISTORIC RIGHT AND ON THE STRENGTH OF THE RESOLUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HEREBY DECLARE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH STATE IN ERETZ-ISRAEL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
WE DECLARE that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, 5708 (15th May, 1948), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 1948, the People's Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People's Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State, to be called "Israel".

Interestingly the word Jewish appears in each of the ten paragraphs. And as I've noted before, the international movement from the Balfour Declaration to the Mandate to it's culmination in 1948 was clearly for the purpose of creating a Jewish state.

Of course this will no more convince Arabs and Israel haters any more that you can convince militant athiests and liberals that America is a Christian nation, protecting rights given by our creator.

Tzipi Livni is a vegetarian. Islam is very carnivorous, just look at them slaughtering sheep and goats out on the street for their Eid un_holy day

The Hindus trend vegetarian and that’s how Islam conquered large parts of India. Being a vegetarian is nice and ethical and all but you will get conquered by the carnivores

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