Bill planned requiring Israel's residents to swear loyalty

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Bill planned requiring Israel's residents to swear loyalty
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0526/1224247402784.html

JERUSALEM – Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman's party plans to propose legislation requiring residents to swear loyalty to the Jewish state, a move critics denounced as a serious onslaught on the rights of Arab citizens.

The ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu party intends to seek cabinet approval for the Bill before presenting it to parliament where it would have to pass three votes and a committee review before taking effect, a party spokesman said yesterday.

The chances of parliament approving the measure seemed uncertain, though greater than in 2007 when a similar Bill presented by Mr Lieberman's deputies failed to pass.

Yisrael Beitenu grew to be Israel's third largest political party in a February election, reflecting a shift to the right by the Israeli public. Mr Lieberman's party is junior partner in prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's right-wing government, which is more likely to support the legislation.

Party spokesman Tal Nahum said the measure would require all Israelis to declare loyalty "to the state of Israel as a Jewish, Zionist and democratic state" before they can be issued a national identity document. The law requires all Israeli residents over 16 to carry their identity cards at all times.

Mr Nahum said the cabinet would discuss the Bill on Sunday.

Yisrael Beitenu this week proposed a separate Bill to be discussed in parliament that would ban public demonstrations of grief over Israel's independence. Many Arabs mark the founding of Israel each year as the Naqba, or catastrophe. The Bill proposes a three-year jail term for any violators.

The measure could deprive anyone refusing to take such an oath of a document needed to conduct ordinary daily business such as opening a bank account or procuring a driver's licence.

Israeli critics saw the Bill, which also seeks to force residents to either serve in the military or perform national service, as targeting Israeli Arabs, most of whom are not drafted for military duty that is compulsory for Jews.

Arab citizens make up about a fifth of Israel's population and are descended from those who remained while hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled what is now Israel or were driven out during the 1948 war.

The Bill calls for enabling the interior minister to lift someone's citizenship if he or she fails to either serve in the Israeli army or do a term of national service.

Anyone not born in Israel would have to take the same oath.

Oded Feller, a lawyer for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, denounced the loyalty Bill as "total fascism". The measure could also hurt other Israelis, including ultra-Orthodox Jews who object to the establishment of a Jewish state before the arrival of the Messiah, Mr Feller said. – (Reuters)

This reminds me of the Hitler loyalty oath during world war two.
All members of the army and later all German Males aged between 16 - 60  were forced to swear oaths of personal loyalty to Hitler.

The main point being after swearing blind loyalty to Hitler they could be executed for disobeying any order. Instant treason and execution. :cry:

If this Bill becomes law the same can be done with any with Israeli Arabs, jail or in times of war maybe execution. I wouldn't put it past them.

Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_oath

Service oath for soldiers of the armed forces
I swear by God this sacred oath that I shall render unconditional obedience to Adolf Hitler, the Führer of the German Reich and people, supreme commander of the armed forces, and that I shall at all times be ready, as a brave soldier, to give my life for this oath

http://histclo.com/Youth/youth/org/nat/hitler/act/mil/ham-volks.htm

Volkssturm recruits were administered a four part oath:
Part 1: "First, we swear thatm like our fathers, we want to be loyal, loyal to the Führer, whom the Lord God has sent to us, loyal to the Reich which unites att German stems for centuries and that is and will be as it was formerly the regulating power of the European continent. Loyal to the Volk and thereby to ourselves, because we are the most valiable elements to defend and preserve the eternal like of the German peoples, its women and children, and therewith its blood that vhas created so much that is noble for man."
Part 2: To be obedient to all orders from the Führer and superiors
Part 3: To know that the most poweful forces a people could muster were believing hearts and steadfastness.
Part 4: "We have learned from the very mouths of our enemies what we can expect, the destruction of our country, the clearance of our woods, the dissolution of our economy, the annihilation of our towns, the burning down of our villages, and the extermination of our peoples .... Never and nowhere are Volkssturm men [HBC note: Of course many were boys.] permitted to capitulate. If at ant time aesponsible leader believes himself to be in a hopeless position where he must give up the struggle, the usual custom of our brave Navy is valid for the Volkssturm: he must give up the command to that subordinate--even if he be the youngesr--who has the will to continue the fight." [Padfield, pp. 542-543.]

http://histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/age/ww2-age.html

Germany who began inducting youths and older men when the War turned against Germany. Most of the younger boys and older men were inducted into the Volksstrum created late in the War (1944). As a last ditch effort to stave off defeat in October 1944, all males aged 16 to 60 were required to join the Volkssturm, or Home Guard.

The driving forces behind this:

The choice of Netanyahu was cemented on Thursday when Avigdor Lieberman, who heads the hawkish Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) party, endorsed him.
Lieberman's party, which based its campaign on requiring Israel's Arab citizens to swear loyalty to the Jewish state or lose their citizenship, came in third place in the Feb. 10 election, after Kadima and Netanyahu's Likud. That essentially allowed him to determine whether Netanyahu or Livni would be able to muster the backing of a majority in parliament.

http://theinfounderground.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4273&p=17079&hilit=swear+loyalty#p17079