Should U.S. born Jews who serve in the Israeli Army be stripped of their US citizenship?

Question

Thanks for your answer.

JC forever!

Answer 1

Absolutely not!
US citizens serving in the Israeli Armed Services should be commended and honored.
America is a free and democratic country, as is Israel.
Israel and America are allies.
Unlike America's illegitimate involvement in Iraq, Israel has a legitimate reasons to be at war.

Answer 2

Not unless they keep paying taxes.
They should keep their citizenship until there is a clear conflict of interest. I have a problem when naturalized citizens favor their prior culture, and we do have a lot of Jewish Americans caught spying on the U.S.. If he was drafted and don't come back to America or something like that, he should not only lose his citizenship, but go to jail. I think Law and Order had an Episode like that, but the Jew went AWOL from the US army. If they are cite zen of the US, they should be loyal to us, but no Jews are asked to choose yet, except for the spying cases. In the Spying case, they should get a lot of jail time and may be death. Yeah, they should lose their citizenship, but I think in a death penalty situation, this is moot.

Answer 3

You can only have one allegiance, you have to choose loyalty. Unlike what the ragheads scream, the USA and Isreal are not joined at the hip, their goals and alliances are not alwatys the same although the right of Isreal to exist as a nation is never in doubt, if the UN wanted to revoke that right, we'd finally ask them to get their stinking headquarters out of our country so we don't have to pay the structural upkeep, turn the building over to crackwhores or something more respectable. Oh, sorry, off on a tangent, ahem -I don't believe in Mexico's dual citizenship for immigrants applying for nationhood here or any other country anywhere in the world. You can be a "guest" elsewhere, but there is only one "home" in your heart with which you must side. I would not think any less of someone choosing to give up US citizenship to take up that in another country, it is far more honorable than just pretending about loyalties. BOTTOM LINE If you are willing to go fight and die for a country, what gives you that incentive that you would not want to become a citizen of that country? I had an Irish immigrant ancestor who got citizenship by fighting for the Union in the Civil War, when he came limping home it was as an AMERICAN, not Irish American, Irish Catholic or any other thing, simply as an American. He did not make any claims about Ireland, this was the home he was willing to fight and die for.

Answer 4

By law, any US citizen who takes up the arms of a foreign nation is supposed to be stripped of their citzenship. That has generally not been applied unless you take up arms AGAINST your own country.

BTW- in rebuttal to mild irritant's answer, yes, the French provided financial and military support during the Revolution. A debt that was repaid during the French revolution. And how many times have we bailed the French out since then? Let me count the ways. WWI, WWII, we took over in Vietnam because the French couldn't handle it, we helped the French out in Somalia because they couldn't control what they still viewed as their colony. I say that the next time Germany gets froggy and starts looking at their western neighbor, we sell it too them, recoup some of our losses.

Answer 5

No. Look back at past wars where US citizens have served in foreign armies. I think even Ernest Hemingway was in the French army or something like that. Having said that, I am no fan of duel citizenship.

Answer 6

There aren't too many, and I suppose you could make a case that fighting for a foreign power is just cause to lose your citizenship. Since we need more volunteers for the US Army, how about if we allow them to enlist in the US Army to keep their citizenship?

Answer 7

no....that can only happen if while serving that military they
attack USA troops or interests in the region, which isreal
will NEVER do...

its not the same as these few american/british yahoos
going over to iraq and afghanistan to fight against us.

Answer 8

What?!?

Care to clarify?

Should the Flying Tigers have been stripped of their citizenship for fighting the Japanese in China before the U.S. entered World War II.?

Oh - and how can I forget - many Americans went to fight in the French revolutionary war, when their OWN revolutionary war was barely over! Because the French came in OUR time of need to help us defeat the Brittish.

History calls all of these people Heros.

Answer 9

I don't think so, they are basically serving America's interests as well by protecting the territorial integrity of a democratic Israel...

Answer 10

NO because the USA supports Isreal.