Although I will no longer debate this matter, I am directed by my Lord, the HOLY One of Israel and Holy Spirit, JAHESHUA, the Chosen One of JAH (MischaJah)... who is the TRUTH (
John 14:6) to SHARE the truth... as to ALL things. Including this matter. And so, I offer... to ANYONE who may be interested (and if not, please know that you are MORE than welcome to overlook this thread, withhold comment, and check out another more interesting (to you) thread - I will NOT be offended, not at ALL!):
According to the "Law of Return" (which is the basis not only for Jews the world over... but their non-Jewish children and grandchildren... to claim automatic Israeli citizenship, if desired (with limitations, if you're a criminal and/or considered dangerous)... one is NOT one is not recognized as a Jew... regardless of whether or not their mother is a Jew... IF one is a "messianic" Jew. Meaning, if one considers himself/herself to be a "christian" Jew.
According to the Law of Return, Israeli legislation passed by the Israeli Parliament on July 5, 1950, those "Jews" who chose/followed ANOTHER religion (other than Judaism) are not only not entitled to Israeli citizenship, but not even considered Jews. That position was upheld by the Supreme Court of Israel in 1989, which ruled that "Messianic Judaism constituted another religion, and that people who had become Messianic Jews were not therefore eligible for aliyah (the "act of going up" or as in progressing towards Jerusalem and is one of the most basic tenets of Zionist ideology under the law.)
Of course, that didn't sit well with such Jews, who sued, and so:
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"On April 16, 2008, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled in a case brought by a number of people with Jewish fathers and grandfathers whose applications for citizenship had been rejected on the grounds that they were Messianic Jews. The argument was made by the applicants that they had never been Jews according to halakha, and were not therefore excluded by the conversion clause. They immigrate as the non-Jewish relative of a Jew and not as a Jew. This argument was upheld in the ruling, and the government agreed to reprocess their applications."
Anyone interested can find accurate information as to the Law of Return at any of the links here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=law+of+ ... 0&ie=UTF-8What is just as interesting to ME is the following information from Focus Migration, "an information service that offers up-to-date figures, data and analysis on immigration, migration, asylum and integration issues. The service consists of three core products: country profiles, policy briefs and the “Migration und Bevölkerung” newsletter (in German only)." Regarding their country profiles, the website states:
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"Country profiles provide information on migration, refugee flows and integration in different countries - covering countries of immigration and emigration in Europe and world-wide. The profiles include information on:
Data and statistics
Historical background
Legislation and policy
Current public debates
In addition, they offer further tips on reading and internet links, giving readers the chance to gain more indepth knowledge on the country in question."
One can find (if one is interested) in the country profile for Israel here:
http://www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migratio ... 392/israelMOST interesting (to ME, at least), is this information, addressing the historical development of Jewish migration:
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Before the founding of the state Jews have been migrating to Palestine since the early 1880s and the emergence of the Zionist movement. Five waves of immigration (aliyah, plural: aliyoth) are generally identified for the time leading up to the founding of the state in 1948.
The first aliyah, between 1882 and 1903, comprised about 25,000 mostly Russian and Romanian Jews and was, not least, a reaction to a series of anti-Semitic pogroms in southern Russia. It led to the first major towns and agricultural holdings in an area that had hitherto been relatively sparsely populated and economically poorly developed. Between 1904 and 1914 a further 40,000 Jews came to Palestine. This group predominantly consisted of members of the "Zionist Workers" in Russia who were dissatisfied with the slow pace of social reform and who had likewise become victims of anti-Semitic attacks as a consequence of the 1905 revolution. The third aliyah, between 1919 and 1923, was made up of a further 35,000 immigrants, approximately, predominantly from Poland and Russia or the Soviet Union and motivated, among other things, by the Balfour Declaration and the associated boost for the Zionist project, which aspired towards an independent Jewish state. [1]
Between 1924 and 1931 a further 80,000 Jews arrived, once again primarily from the Soviet Union and Poland. The Polish Jews in particular suffered from anti-Semitism in Polish government policy, which excluded them from important segments of the economy. By contrast, the prospects for economic development for Jews in Palestine at this time were already significantly improved, and a Jewish infrastructure had been established. The biggest pre-state wave of immigration, the fifth aliyah between 1932 and 1939, involved about 200,000 Jews. They had recognised the signs of the times, largely following the assumption of power by the National Socialists in 1933, and decided to leave their homeland. The immigrants of the 1930s also already included several thousand Jews from Middle Eastern countries with large Jewish communities such as Yemen and Iraq. Between 1939 and 1945 around a further 70,000 European Jews from Poland, Germany, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia succeeded in fleeing from Nazi terror. They are sometimes also included in the fifth aliyah. These immigrants not only had to overcome the difficulties of leaving Central and Eastern Europe, but, against a background of the looming partition of Palestine, were also confronted by the British Mandatory power's restrictive immigration regulations. On the eve of the founding of the Israeli state, the Jewish population of Palestine numbered more than 600,000 people.
The War of Independence: refugeeism and displacement At the start of Jewish immigration at the end of the 19th century Palestine was by no means uninhabited. Living in the area – initially in peaceful coexistence with the Jewish immigrants, for the most part – was a partly nomadic, partly settled Arab population totalling about 400,000 people. In addition, there were a number of small Jewish communities which, taken together, numbered about 20,000 people and whose settlement went back predominantly to Jews driven out of Spain at the end of the 15th century as well as Jewish pilgrims from the latter years of the Middle Ages.
At the end of the 19th century and turn of the 20th century the living space and economic areas of both population groups overlapped, especially in the mixed-population cities of Haifa, Yaffo (Jaffa), Ramle and Akko. Like the Jews, Arabs, too, migrated from surrounding regions to Palestine and settled there.
The early 1920s, however, saw riots and at times armed conflict between Jews and Arabs (mostly over land issues) as well as between both groups and the British Mandatory power in Palestine. In the 1930s and 1940s there were civil war-like clashes, increasing in magnitute after the United Nations (UN) Partition Plan of 1947 which proposed two states on Palestinian soil,. Immediately after the Declaration of Independence made by the Jewish National Council on the 14th May 1948, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq declared war on the new state of Israel. This first Arab-Israeli war lasted over a year and led to massive displacement and refugee movements, since the victorious Israel also conquered areas that, according to the UN Plan, were to belong to the Arab state of Palestine.
In all, between 600,000 and 800,000 people of Arabic origin were left without a homeland: more than 450,000 settled in the Gaza Strip as well as in the part of the West Bank under Jordanian control until 1967, 70,000 in Transjordan (today's Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan), 75,000 in Syria and a further 100,000 in Lebanon. Palestinian refugees also found themselves in Iraq (about 4,000) and in Egypt (around 7,000). Unlike most Jews, who saw in the newly-founded and defended independence of Israel the realisation of the Zionist dream, the war, refugeeism and displacement of the year 1948 meant catastrophe (Nakba) for Arab Palestinians.
In 1948 a small number of Arabs stayed in the newly founded state: a good 150,000 non-Jews were granted Israeli citizenship, making them an ethnic minority. Depending on (self)definition, members of that minority are described as Israeli Arabs or as Palestinian Israelis. Today this group comprises more than 1.4 million people.
http://www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migratio ... evelopment The information... TRUTHFUL information... is out there. One only needs to WANT the truth... and it's their's to have. Having lived a little over half a century, AND having researched this matter for myself (because my Lord wanted me to know the TRUTH), I believe the information above is accurate, correct, and truthful. You, though, must decide for yourself. Of course, you can ignore the word of the MOST Holy One of Israel, JAH of Armies (JaHVeH)... and lean upon your OWN understanding (which may have been established based on emotion and not REAL research)... or you can trust in HIM... and listen to the One He SENT... to LEAD Israel... ALL of Israel and NOT just the Jews. Which One He said TO listen to. Which is what I did... and so how I came upon this and other information that sheds truthful light on this matter.
I hope it helps!
Peace... to you ALL, in the way Christ gives it... and to those in the land of Israel/Palestine, in the way the world gives it, for the children, elderly, and other folks not directly responsible for or involved in the current conflict!
Servant to the Household of God, Israel, and ALL those who go with... and a slave of Christ,
SA