dimwit wrote:Hey Mods is it possible to split this thread with the All Germans are Nazi shit being consigned to BF?
That's where it probably belongs.
But let me just point out this.
What’s Behind the Surge in Israelis Seeking EU Citizenship?
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Over the past 15 years, as the European Union has expanded while terrorism and war have continued to plague the Jewish state, Israelis have been rushing to acquire citizenship from the countries their relatives fled before and after the Holocaust. The Spanish government announced in July that it would grant citizenship to descendants of Jewish families that the nightmarish Inquisition in 1492 forced out, a move that is expected to bring even more applicants for a darkon zar, Hebrew for “foreign passport.”
Between 400,000 and 500,000 Israelis have a European passport, says Yossi Harpaz, a doctoral student at Princeton University, more than double the estimated figure in 2000. Add that to the 500,000 Israelis who already have American, Russian and/or other passports, and that’s about 1 million people, or roughly 1 in 8 Israelis, who have dual citizenship. Roughly 75 percent of the country is Jewish, and of that figure, nearly half trace their lineage to Europe. (The other half, known here as mizrahim, come from the Middle East and North Africa.) So for many Israelis, it seems the real two-state solution means holding a second passport.
This doesn’t, however, mean that a large number of Israeli Jews will return to Europe for good. In fact, roughly the same number of Jews come to Israel each year as leave the country. Israelis acquire foreign passports in record numbers but seem to keep them for time of need; actual migration from Israel has not changed substantially. “I wouldn’t rush to call it the end of Zionism,” says Harpaz, “but it means that there is a different way to be Israeli.” Yet some politicians warn that under the continued threat of terrorism, or the rise of a nuclear Iran, future generations of Israelis will eventually choose to leave. “I think the phenomenon is connected to the lack of security that Israelis often feel about the future of the country,” says Ofer Shelah, a prominent member of the Knesset for the centrist Yesh Atid party. “I thought the state of Israel was created partly in order to release us from the historic fears of the Jewish people, but it seems they are still there.”
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So, the story appears to be somewhat nuanced about masses of Israeli's leaving the EU...
), I agree with the rest of it. It would be nice if this is a step to allowing greater part time participation, and what would be really, really cool would be them really getting down and creative on the self-regulatory mechanisms and procedures........like using that new style fax type thing......WTF it's called. The one the freeloader firms use to bypass the regulatory regime...............