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From: matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt )
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Rajiv Gandhi takes a cue from the ultra-Zionists
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Date: Thu, 26-Dec-85 11:18:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 26 11:18:52 1985
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> The Indian government quelled these riots with an agreement, which,
> according to the newspaper, included these provisions:  1.  Immigrants
> from after 1971 would be expelled from Assam, in some cases back to
> Bangladesh.  This affects between 500,000 and 1 million people.
> (i.e. about the population of the West Bank)  2.  Immigrants from
> between 1966 and 1971 (tens of thousands more) may remain but lose
> the right to vote for ten years.

> I look forward to a justification of these events from certain persons
> who criticise the Israeli government for pursuing a rather similar
> (perhaps even more moderate!) policy.....

> andy

1.  Israel is not pursuing ANYTHING LIKE such a policy.  It is Rabbi
Meir Kahane who proposes taking away the votes from non-Jews (not just
Arabs), and ejecting ONLY THOSE ARABS who refuse to live without political
rights -- and Rabbi Kahane is banned from radio-TV, and the new anti-
Kahane laws passed in the Knesset will make it illegal for anyone advocating
his policies even to run for office.

2.  The concept of throwing out everyone who immigrated after a given date
is from the Palestine National Covenant -- all Jews who came (or whose
ancestors came) to Palestine after some given year (1917?  1947?) would
have to go back where they (or their ancestors) came from.  It's not fair
to attribute to the Israelis the ideas of their principal adversaries.

                                        -- Matt Rosenblatt