Israel approves a law in favor of its Jewish identity

The decision of the Israeli parliament to approve the law that establishes the Jewish identity of Israel opens disturbing scenarios on the future of the country and the Palestinian question and confirms the anti-democratic connotation of the majority that holds the government in Tel Aviv. It must be specified that the difference in votes in favor of the approval was minimal, but despite this mathematical fact, the direction that took the executive appears incontrovertible. There are exogenous factors that have favored this law: the coming to power of Trump, who replaced Obama in the White House, the immobility of the Organizations and international subjects, which could condition Israel to approve a law of this type, in addition to disorder which is in the Middle East, which has favored a sort of disinterest in the Israeli-Palestinian question; but favorable conditions have also matured thanks to the situation within the Israeli country, with the majority of the increasingly radicalized electoral body and a divided opposition, unable to exploit the incapacities in the economic policy of the government and which has not been able to take advantage of the scandals which concerned the prime minister. The Israelis have adapted themselves to be governed more and more by an almost theocratic right, coinciding with the most conservative religious circles, which has conducted a policy against the Arabs and in favor of the abusive settlements in the territories, to widen the expansion of ultra-Orthodox settlers and with the aim of increasing the surface of the territory of Israel. The government in office has not only followed these directions, but has become a promoter, maintaining an ambiguous conduct in the international arena, promising concessions to the Arabs, who have never arrived and obtaining, in fact, to procure the Palestinian question to gain time from to employ in the occupation of the territories. In this context it was possible to elaborate the law on the Jewish identity of the state of Israel. What we want to create is a homogeneous nation based on the peculiarities of belonging to Judaism; The concrete risk, even for non-observant Jews, is that the religious factor assumes too important a importance, capable of conditioning, even more decisively, the future of Israeli society. According to the new law every Jew who wants it will have the right to emigrate to the Israeli country and obtain its citizenship, this provision implies that it will be necessary to expand the territory of the country, which is expressly foreseen through the promotion of Jewish communities within of the settlements. The practice of subtracting territory from Arab communities becomes legal. It is obvious that this factor can not but affect the future of relations with the Palestinians, but also on the consequences that diplomatic relations will have on Tel Aviv. Making the prediction that this provision will only bring about alterations in the regional balance, it seems all too easy, but as long as the international community does not want to use adequate pressure instruments, the Israeli government will have the legitimacy to continue acting in this direction. It will be interesting to check how the national institutions will behave towards that minority, about twenty percent of non-Jewish Israeli citizens, which include Muslim Arabs, but also Catholics, Druses and Orthodox; political minorities, including Jews, have defined the anti-democratic law because it risks being discriminatory precisely because of the effects it may have on that part of Israeli society that does not coincide with the characteristics of Jewish identity. Certainly the conditions and rights of these citizens must be verified after the entry into force of the new law. The promulgation of this norm marks an anti-historical retreat of the positions of Israel and its will of closure, which, through the alleged search to protect its origins and its religious faith, aims to legalize the occupation of the territories of others against the right international in contempt of the international community and making only instrumental use of millennial values.