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JPost: Loyalty Laws: Misguided and Harmful
Dan Izenberg, Jerusalem Post, June 2nd 2009
"We should seek to create here a better balance between civic integration and civic duties to the state, while recognizing the history."
"I emphatically want to protect Israel being the national home for Jews, but we should also acknowledge the fact that many Israeli citizens don't feel, and cannot be expected to feel, the same way," she said.
"I would like to engage them and show them that not agreeing with the Jewishness of the state is one thing, but denying its legitimacy is a totally different thing. They should be free to disagree and even work towards possibly persuading me that I don't need a Jewish state. But there is a long way between that and denying my legitimacy, arguing that I'm perpetrating war crimes or that I'm racist by nature for wanting this to be my national home."
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