Would I be allowed to become a Palestinian citizen?

Question

Let’s say sometime in the future a Palestinian state is created that includes all or most of the territory of the West Bank.

Would I as an American Jew be allowed to live there? Would I eventually be permitted to apply for citizenship?

What if the inhabitants of a small settlement unanimously decided that they want to revoke their Israeli citizenship and take Palestinian citizenship provide that they were allowed to say in their homes. Would they be accepted?

What if a quarter million settlers said the same thing, would that be allowed?

Just something to think about.

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I did not know land ownership was a requirement for citizenship, I guess I learned something new.

Answer 1

You might get a hint from other known facts.

First, a Jew is not allowed to own land in Jordan, and Jordan is a Palestinian state that is at peace with Israel.

Second, a Jew is not allowed to own land in Saudi Arabia, regarded rather wistfully as a moderate Islamic state.

Third, Israelis who by mistake enter cities under the control of the Palestinain Authority have been lynched (as in "murdered").

Thus, while we do not have a definitive answer to your question, all signs point to a negative reply.


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Answer 2

First we should dispel a myth. "Muslim by choice" writes, "before the zionist project was launched, Jews and Arabs did find a way to co-exist in one country."

That is not accurate. Arab violence against Jews has been going on long before there was an occupation, long before there was a refugee problem--indeed, long before there was a political Zionist movement. Perhaps even further back, where I hope everyone will agree that the Zionist movement did not yet come into being:

In the centuries after Muhammad there have been periods when the Jews were able to live in relative peace under Arabs, but their position was never secure. They were generally viewed with contempt by their Arab neighbors, and their survival was always predicated on their abject subordination and degradation to them. Mass murders of Jewish "protected people" started in Morocco as early as the eighth century, where Idris I wiped out whole communities. A century later Baghdad's Caliph al-Mutawakkil designated a yellow badge for Jews (setting a precedent that would be followed centuries later in Nazi Germany), and synagogues were destroyed throughout Mesopotamia in 854-859. In Tripolitania, Jews were considered the property of their Arab masters, who would bequeath the Jews to their heirs upon death. In the 12th century, after anti-Jewish riots, the contemporaries commented that their population had 'greatly declined.' ( Middle East Digest, September 1999)

As to how to solve the problem, the only way would be for Israel to defeat the Arabs overwhelmingly, and then dictate the terms for peace. Otherwise, the Arabs will never stop trying to destroy Israel.

But to think that these Arabs, who excel in modern terror methods, would let a Jew be a citizen in their state, there is no chance of that.

There must not be another Arab state, whose sole purpose in existing would be to cause the end of Israel as a Jewish state.


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Answer 3

B: It is an interesting idea to ponder...
If Israel and Palestine share a border, don't you think there can be cases where Plestinians would want to live in Israel and vice versa?
How about visiting professors? Consultants? Owners and managers of hotel chains and restaurant chains?
Think about it:
If the Palestinian state and the Israeli state normalize relations, this area of the Mid-East can be the best tourist attraction!
And due to all our combined brain power, we can create excellent academic and business partnerships.
We will be the envy of the entire region!!!!

Answer 4

think of if *each and every* Palestinian presently residing in Israel exchange right into a die-no longer undemanding Hamas member. that's what the area interior the West economic employer is like. The Jews there are non secular fans, no longer the greater reasonable Jews. How can the Palestinians get alongside with a team who desires to wipe them off the land like this? Like I mentioned, ought to the Israelis get alongside with a million die-no longer undemanding Hamas supporters residing among them? this might in user-friendly terms bring about 2 issues: the Palestinians being absorbed into Israel, or the settlers being bumped off by potential of rigidity-- that could lead on directly to a civil conflict for Israel. this is going to end undesirable for Israel, mark my words. None of their wars over the final sixty 5 years will evaluate to the disaster they are going to discover themselves in in the event that they proceed happening this highway. I assure many Israelis do understand the unfavourable aspects of continuous to alter into irreversibly entangled with the Palestinian inhabitants, yet they stay silent because of the fact that is considered unpatriotic to oppose the settlements. Opposing the Iraq conflict exchange into considered unpatriotic by potential of maximum people until they ultimately got here to their senses, even though it exchange into too late. that's the only time in Israel's historic past that they've allowed emotion to trump mind whilst it is composed of shaping their coverage, and that isn't any twist of fate that it began happening in user-friendly terms after Israeli politics made that is shift to the nicely suited. -------------- And the individuals asserting Israel will basically commerce are fooling themselves. Israel does not have the land to commerce with the Palestinians. that they had ought to take out huge chucks of the eco-friendly line. to no longer point out, even the conservative estimates have not have been given any decrease than one hundred,000 Jews being pressured out under any deal. Now evaluate the fuss over in user-friendly terms 9,000 Jews being faraway from Gaza - which isn't very nearly as holy to them. this could be a civil conflict. they have already had one top minister murdered over it.

Answer 5

under president arafat the palestinian authority claimed that the state of palestine would have jewish citizens with equal rights, just as the state of israel has muslim and christian citizens.
this assertion was made many times to encourage the restitution of the entire occupied territories, including israeli settlments, leaving in their homes the settlers.
one of the leaders of neturei karta (anti-zionist orthodox jews) was appointed minister for jewish internal affairs of the palestinian authority.
so the answer to your question is yes :-)
if then u are thinking also of new immigrants from israel, then reciprocity would be demanded.
of course i think hamas has quite another position... but i left palestine too much time ago to know about their official declarations

Answer 6

No! Only Arabs are allowed to be citizens of the Jewish State.
Jews are compared to dogs, apes and pigs, and certainly won't be allowed to become a citizen in any of the Arab countries, especially palestine.

Answer 7

Who knows? But in the current context, I don't think that would be a wise move on your part. But if you'll recall, before the zionist project was launched, Jews and Arabs did find a way to co-exist in one country. I don't think the Arabs would willingly agree to it after all that has transpired, but it may come to pass as a concession in the end. Please see my comments to you on the issue of settler opinions here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ainer6XPFrvpkz0TZi_K90Hsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071208113856AAh3Pqj&show=7#profile-info-FcH2ZEkqaa

EDIT: But if you're trying to draw a subtle analogy between the Palestinians who received Israeli citizenship after the creation of Israel and the Jewish settlers who would most likely not be given Palestinian citizenship, your point is flawed. The Israelis HAD to give the Palestinians citizenship as it was their land and they needed to project some level of equal democracy to receive continued support from the international community. The issuance of citizenship to some of the Arabs was essentially a ruse that would allow Israel to claim it was a secular democracy.

And this was only done AFTER enough Palestinians were murdered, forcibly driven from their homes, or forced to become refugees in the war. Do you really think that Israel would have given full citizenship rights to all of the Arabs that were living in the original Jewish part of the partition? Would the Jewish state have been able to survive if it had?

As to the second component of this alleged analogy, the Jewish settlers, by contrast, are illegal occupiers of the West Bank land according to international law. As such, they have no rights, as did the Palestinians, to remain in their homes and enjoy the political representation and civil rights that any person in his homeland should have, regardless of who would be in power in a future state.

EDIT: Thank you for your comments, Gam Zo. I will do some more research into this issue. From the many sources I have read, the serious problems between Jews and Palestinians did not begin until there were signicant and continuing waves of immigation to the British Mandate. Now, if you want to address the entire Muslim world, that is a different matter. My comments were directed at the case of Palestine.

Now. as to your view that the only way to stop the Arabs is to "defeat them overwhelmingly" I would ask you, how do you defeat a group that is not an army, has no defined bases, few strategic targets, compartmentalized cells and drifts between civilian and paramilitary life with ease? Yes, you can marginalize their efforts through intelligence and security, but you will never defeat them. The only way to stop them is to promote a change in their hearts and the hearts of those who will grow up to replace them one day if the current situation continues as is. That means Israel has to stop making their lives a living hell!!!

Answer 8

No.
The world agrees that the "state of Palestine" would be Judenrien - free of all Jews.
No Jews allowed.
A (fascist) state for Arabs only.
It will be like Jordan, where the law forbids Jews from owing land, or like Saudi Arabia, where no Jews are even allowed in because they're seen as "dirty".

Unlike Israel, in which 20% of its citizens are Arabs.

Answer 9

If the new state was controlled by Fatah and only Fatah you would be allowed of course because palestinians can apply to Israeli citizenship and actually they were one offered citizenships but they refused. However, if Hamas had some control of the Land, I suspect you can apply. I even suspect that can enter the state and get out alive. I am Palestinian and I wouldn't want to apply to a Palestinian citizenship.
Good luck.

Answer 10

I say open the border , you want to apply , the Palestinians apply in Israel if they want to , why not? Cheers!

Mimi when were all Palestinians offered nationality? Do you have a source, thanx. Ah your talking about Jeruselem, yes they were offered in hopes that Jeruselem would never be split up with east jerusalum going to Palestine. Israel figured if all in Jeruselem accepted debate finished. Here's an article of interest for you.