can they get married??? is it accepted??
2007-03-18 19:21:36 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Israel
I like this question... I asked it to our travel guide in Israel during my visit 6 weeks ago and he didn’t even like that topic... as I insisted he answered following:
1. That in Israel doesn’t exist a "non - religious" (civil) wedding as in Europe (don’t know if it’s true, but I had to believe him)
2. That in most of that cases one partner converts into another religion, so they could celebrate a Muslim wedding for example... I know that it’s a little difficult (not saying impossible, as I don’t like that word) for a Muslim to convert into a Jew... so I suppose that the only option would be to convert into Islam.
3. He said, that there exists the possibility to get married outside of Israel in Europe or USA where civil weddings do exist and return as a married couple.
4. Than he added, that there are many Arabs (Palestine’s) living inside the Israeli border and having the citizenship... and although the medias are trying to say the opposite, they do have full citizenship and vote. He said, that there is no inconvenience for these people to get married with another Israeli citizen and live together (no matter what their both religion is)...
5. He then said, if a Palestine citizen (not Israeli) marries some Israeli citizen it might become difficult to settle in the state of Israel, but there won’t be any problem to settle in Palestine.
6. Then he added, that normally all Muslim men do have more than 1 woman and normally all of "them" are looking for a woman outside Palestine as well to have a possible "get-away"...
I found that he really didn’t like to treat that issue and as soon as it was possible for him he changed the topic.
Well, I was a guest in Israel and I think that I had to be polite and keep my big mouth shut, but I really think, that people in the 21st century should not accept a situation like this: How is it possible that one of the most modern countries does not know a civil wedding?? How is it possible that a state does dictate who you should be allowed to marry whom? If a Spanish citizen gets married with somebody from anywhere of the world, he has the right to bring his/her wife/husband to Spain to join living with him/her...
... And yeah, he also said, that the Palestine’s would try to get the woman pregnant as soon as possible.
Well, sounds cynical to me... as if many men with other religions didn’t have the same things in mind... ha-ha-ha!!!
Why did I ask?
Well, curiosity, and I had some romance during my holidays with a Palestine man. Well, anyway, I am back home now and this romance would lead to nowhere, but I was just curious about the situation as I a couple of years ago I even thought of the possibility to move to Israel...
2007-03-19 02:43:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anita P 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
One in five of Israel's population is Palestinian by descent, a group, commonly referred to as Israeli Arabs, who managed to remain inside the Jewish state during the war of 1948 that established Israel. As there is no principle of equality in Israeli law, human rights groups who challenged the government's 2003 amendment were forced to argue instead that it violated the dignity of the families. Mixed Israeli and Palestinian couples are not only unable to live together inside Israel but they are also denied a married life in the occupied territories, from which Israeli citizens are banned under military regulations.
Justice Michael Cheshin suggested that mixed couples wanting to build a family "should live in Jenin", a Palestinian city in the West Bank besieged by Israeli military armour. Cheshin again demonstrated an other-worldly logic when he justified the majority view of his colleagues: "Beyond this [measure] stands the state's right not to allow residents of an enemy country to enter its territory during time of war." The problem is that the Palestinians are not another "country", enemy or otherwise; they are a people who have been living under Israeli military occupation for nearly four decades. As the occupying power, Israel is responsible for their welfare, though it has happily passed on that burden to international players with deeper pockets. And the suggestion that the Palestinians, who have no army, are waging a war against Israel, one of the world's strongest military powers, expands the idea of war into the realms of doublespeak. Palestinians are resisting Israel's occupation -- some violently, others non-violently -- as they have a right to do under international law.
The ban on marriages and the drawing of final borders share a single guiding vision: one of maintaining Israel as a Jewish state with a "massive Jewish majority", as former prime minister Ariel Sharon phrased it shortly before the Gaza withdrawal. Until it was amended, the family unification provision in the Nationality Law offered Palestinians in the occupied territories the sole route to Israeli citizenship. But if Israel is building its walls to establish an expanded Jewish state, an ethnic fortress, it is hardly going to leave the back door ajar to let Palestinians achieve what Israelis regard as a right of return, through marriage, to Israel.
Take care
2007-03-19 05:21:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
If the guy is Israeli and the girl is Palestinian, the guy would be loured to a nearby village and they will cut his head.
If the girl is Israeli and the guy is Palestinian, the girl would get pregnant immediately.
2007-03-19 02:34:51 · answer #3 · answered by bahram5656 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yea its accepted love conquers all.
2007-03-19 03:48:00 · answer #4 · answered by Ali N 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here's what happens:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6405799.stm
2007-03-19 07:54:09 · answer #5 · answered by Tinkerbell05 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
maybe they move into another country and get married there
2007-03-19 02:48:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋