“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,” President Reuven Rivlin said on Tuesday.
“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?” he questioned.
Livni later welcomed Rivlin’s remarks, saying that even ‘Ruby’ — as he’s generally called — ‘who’s a Likudnik and a devout zionists that loves Israel, said the truth, that this law fails to see the that there is no left or right when it comes to the Declaration of Independence which is wrapped with two components, it’s Jewish and Democratic and Democratic and Jewish,’ she wrote on Facebook.
The US State Department commented on the proposal, saying that it expects Israel to preserve its “commitment to democratic principles,” no matter the “shape and final outcome.”
But Israel’s Economy Minister Naftali Bennett responded to America’s criticism that “we will manage the matters of the State of Israel ourselves.”
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