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| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
It's silly to equate this with Nazi Germany since the premise for the establishment of the Nuremburg laws of racial purity was completely different than the premise for this law. However, the law is still racist in as much as having the police practice racial profiling is racist. |
Hitler did use "security concerns" to justify some of his actions, for example "liberating" Germans living in Austria or the Sudetenland. He also singled out a particular race of people for the problems in his country, and collective punished them. I accept that it was an exaggeration to compare the two, but I am concerned that this may only be the beginning. If the Israeli Parliament can enforce such racism without hassle, then they may not hesitate to be more controversial in the future and the severity of this could escalate. This might not be the harshest law in the world but it could be the start of worse things to come. The severity of this law might not be outrageous but the nature of it is, and it's symbolic of the Israeli govt's attitude towards the crisis.
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