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A6 WORLD NEWS
Saturday 12 March 2022
Israel renews law to keep out Palestinian spouses

By JOSEPH KRAUSS The Citizenship and Entry
Associated Press into Israel Law was enact-
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s ed as a temporary mea-
parliament has renewed a sure in 2003, at the height
temporary law dating back of the second intifada, or
to 2003 that bars Israeli citi- uprising, when Palestinians
zens from extending citi- launched scores of deadly
zenship or even residency attacks inside Israel. Pro-
to Palestinian spouses from ponents said Palestinians
the occupied West Bank from the occupied West
and Gaza. Bank and Gaza were sus-
Israel says the law, which ceptible to recruitment by
was first enacted during armed groups and that se-
a Palestinian uprising, is curity vetting alone was in-
needed for security. Critics sufficient. The law has been
view it as a racist measure continually renewed even
aimed at maintaining the after the uprising wound
country’s Jewish majority. down in 2005 and the num-
The law is aimed at Pales- ber of attacks plummeted.
tinians and does not ap- Today, Israel allows more
ply to Jewish settlers in the than 100,000 Palestinian
West Bank as they already workers from the West Bank
have Israeli citizenship. to enter on a regular basis.
The Knesset failed to pass Israeli Arab women hold a sign during a protest ahead of a vote by Israel’s parliament on renewing Because of the law, Arab
the law last summer be- a law that bars Arab citizens of Israel from extending citizenship or even residency to spouses from citizens have few if any av-
cause it did not have the the occupied West Bank and Gaza, outside the parliament building in Jerusalem, Monday, July enues for bringing spouses
5, 2021.
support of left-wing and Associated Press from the West Bank and
Arab members of the gov- Gaza into Israel. The policy
erning coalition. The oppo- while campaigning for its Shaked tweeted that the The law mainly affects the affects thousands of fami-
sition, led by former Prime renewal. She and other of- bill’s passage was a victory Arab minority, which ac- lies. The law does not ap-
Minister Benjamin Netan- ficials have acknowledged for “a Jewish and demo- counts for 20% of Israel’s ply to the nearly 500,000
yahu, supports the law it is in part aimed at preserv- cratic state” and a defeat population of 9.5 million Jewish settlers who live in
but declined to vote for it ing Israel’s Jewish majority. for “a state for all its citi- and has close family ties the West Bank, which Israel
to embarrass the govern- The law passed late Thurs- zens.” The latter phrase is to Palestinians in the West captured in the 1967 war
ment. day with help from the op- often used by Israel’s Arab Bank and Gaza. They have and which the Palestinians
Interior Minister Ayelet position but without the minority to refer to their as- citizenship, including the want for their future state.
Shaked, a staunch na- left-wing Meretz and the pirations for equality. right to vote, and have Under Israel’s Law of Re-
tionalist, took measures to United Arab List, an Arab Ayman Odeh, an Arab law- gained acceptance and turn, Jews who come to
prevent family unification party that made history by maker, retweeted Shaked, influence in a number of Israel from anywhere in
during the several months joining the governing coali- calling it a victory for “ an spheres, but still face wide- the world are eligible for
when the law languished tion last year. apartheid state.” spread discrimination. citizenship.q

Trudeau: Canada will take as many

Ukraine refugees as it can

refugees. Almost 1.5 million “We will allow them to tional Criminal Court in The
people have fled to Poland study, work, when they Hague.
since Feb. 24, when Russia’s come here,” Trudeau said “Putin’s callous disregard
army invaded Ukraine. at a joint news conference for human life is absolutely
In talks with Polish Presi- with Duda. unacceptable. It is very
dent Andrzej Duda and “Many of them will hope to clear he has made the
Prime Minister Mateusz be able to return to Ukraine choice to specifically tar-
Morawiecki, Trudeau ex- after this conflict, many will get civilians now,” he said,
pressed support for Po- also chose to continue their stressing that Canada has
land’s openness to the ref- lives in Canada and we “joined the largest refer-
ugees and discussed ways look forward to welcom- ral to the largest criminal
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Polish of supporting Ukraine and ing as many as we can,” court in history and offered
President Andrzej Duda at the palace in Warsaw, Poland, continuing tough sanctions Trudeau said. assistance to expedite this
Thursday, March 10, 2022.
Associated Press on Russia. Duda thanked him for hav- work.”
In Warsaw, Trudeau also ing been the first world “The world will continue to
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA break” to see millions of held talks with visiting U.S. leader to call and offer make Putin accountable
Associated Press Ukrainians fleeing for their Vice President Kamala Har- help to Poland, in the days for his war crimes,” he said.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — lives and leaving all they ris. of building tension before Trudeau pointed to the
Canada’s Prime Minister have behind. Trudeau said his govern- Russia’s invasion. inspiring “ferocity and
Justin Trudeau said Thurs- “Canada will help, Canada ment is speeding up immi- Trudeau said Canada will strength and resolve” of
day during a visit to Poland is there to help,” Trudeau gration procedures to allow actively help to bring Rus- the Ukrainians defending
that his country will take as said in Poland, a fellow the refugees to come very sian leaders responsible for their territory and said Putin
many refugees fleeing war NATO member which quickly to Canada, where the human tragedy, espe- has “made a terrible mis-
in Ukraine “as we can.” neighbors Ukraine and has many people of Ukrainian cially President Vladimir take and he’s gonna lose
Trudeau said “our hearts opened its border to the ancestry live. Putin, before the Interna- this war.”q