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Part Seven - The Diplomatic Plan - Making Israel a Jewish State

The purpose of the political plan

Creating a political infrastructure
To realize the Jewish identity of the State of Israel

Principles

Eretz Yisrael – this is our land

The Land of Israel is the land of the People of Israel alone,
By virtue of our attachment to it throughout the generations, as a nation and as individuals,
On the basis of the decision of the Creator of the Universe, the God of Israel[5],
That by His will was given to us[6].

Protecting human rights

We must protect the human rights of all the inhabitants of the country,
Who accept the first principle,
And wish to live with us in peace.

Human rights and civil rights

Human rights and civil rights are different.
Human rights are granted to him by his Creator, and therefore cannot be denied by man.
Citizenship is granted by a person / state – at man's discretion, and can therefore be taken away by him.

The approach to the question of citizenship – clarification

As we have explained above, the demographic problem is already behind us, and we could annex Judea and Samaria to the State of Israel, and immediately grant automatic citizenship to all Arab residents of Judea and Samaria.

Our opposition to the automatic right to vote – for non-Jews – immediately upon the application of sovereignty, is an objection in principle, not a utilitarian one. The State of Israel was established in order to be a Jewish state – the state of the Jewish people – and it must express this principle and protect it in its system of government.

The argument that the application of sovereignty requires the granting of citizenship is not a true claim. In contrast to the right to citizenship, which every state is entitled to give to any person according to its considerations[7], human rights are vested in him by the Lord of the Universe, and no mortal sovereign can deprive him of them. Just as the United States, which on various historical occasions conquered the island of Puerto Rico, the island of Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa – applied its sovereignty to it, but out of its own considerations, granted its residents the status of subjects who do not have full voting rights[8], It is also permissible for Israel, which was established with the sole purpose of establishing a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, to create a separate civil status while maintaining the human rights of non-Jews, in order to express its basic purpose for which it was created, and to preserve it.

[5] And not on the basis of the United Nations General Assembly resolution, as it appears in the unfortunate wording of the Declaration of Independence.

[6] As in Rashi's classic formulation of the opening of his commentary on the Torah.

[7] A right that will be granted sparingly also to the Arabs of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza who meet the criteria set out below.

[8] See the elaboration and examples from other countries below.