of the Jewish people. This definition is in line with international law that assigned western Eretz Israel/Palestine - located between the Jordan River and the Med. Sea - to be "the national home of the Jewish people", i.e. the Jewish people's nation-state. (League of Nations decisions, 1922, as adopted by the UN Charter, article 80, 1945), and on the legal basis of which the State of Israel was proclaimed on 14 May 1948. This is also in line with international law that has expected of the nation-state of the Jewish people to ensure the full civil and religious rights of the none Jewish population; and, the State of Israel, of course, ensures that all of its citizens are equal before the law. P.S. It is a bit amazing that those who claim to want to live in peace alongside the state of Israel refuse, categorically, to accept its definition as the liberal democratic and sovereign nation-state of the Jewish people. Is it because their societies are not liberal democratic? Or is it because they object to Israel's right to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people on ANY parcel of land of the Jewish people's ancestral homeland? Or, perhaps, both reasons are at play here?

And without a Pal state is just a law is a law is a law is a law...

It's amazing that the only person in the world who doesn't already understand that Israel is and has been The Jewish State for over 60 years is the PM. Why is he so insecure that he needs other people to reassure him of this basic fact?

KOL HAKOVOD! MAY ISRAEL CONTINUE TO GROW IN STRENGTH AND TO PROSPER.

Israel has Israelis living there and you know it by their teudat zehuts and passports. This includes the Arabs, Druzes, Cherkess as well as religious and non-religious people deriving from Jews. In my opinion, only the religious are Jews, so will Israel be defined as a country of the fanatic religious people? I am sure Netanyahu will not dare to define anything meaningful, anything that will straighten out the country..

...and if the Arabs won't acknowledge that Israel is the sovereign homeland of the Jewish people, that Pal State will never exist.

It is to be hoped, that the state/land of Israel is capable, to receive the entire Jewish people, of more than 13 million in number, to live there (if needed). Also, Israel, forever,ever and always!

the jewish people's historical, religious, political and physical ties to the land of israel goes back over three thousand years. king david had built jerusalem and ruled over a jewish kingdom over three thousand years ago. his son, king solomon, had built the first jewish temple. the exiles returning from babylon built the second jewish temple. jews had fought roman imperialism for hundreds of years. although jews were taken into exile by a vengeful rome, jews had remained in the land of israel throughout the period of exile. subsequent imperial colonial conquests by arab muslims and by the ottoman empire could not stamp out jewish presence in the land of israel. arab muslims have no historical rights to the land of israel, nor to the holy city of jerusalem, the seat of zion. arab muslims were interlopers in the land of israel and built their mosque on the remnants of the jewish temples as a sign of conquest and religious supremacy.

and continuing to act like goyim, will not make Israel into a Jewish state and will not convince the Arabs and the rest of the world that Israel is a Jewish state. If Israel is a Jewish state, the Torah should be the constitution, not some homebaked laws by self appointed judges and lawmakers and all the laws should run according to Torah. If the Basic Laws are not the Aseret Hadibrot, the 10 Commandments, all your ideas, Bibi, is shtuyot stupidity.

god. And He makes it clear the land is His and He has chosen who will live here in the land. Netanyahu is trying to trick Israelis into thinking a Jewish state must be recognized by the PA. Baloney!!

No other group in the world claims refugee status after spending over two and almost 3 generations living in other countries!

Ask your kindergarten teacher. He or She, I am sure will explain it to you. Until then eat your cookie and drink your milk.

It is an excellent move which is vital to Israel's existence.

Finally a necessary and a long overdue decision to legalize the State of Israel's status as the jewish national state. In this way not only Muslim world, but also the rest of it should and will learn and accept that Jews have their own national identity, not only the religion under that name, so they have all legal rights to have their own country as well.

"Eretz Israel, the land of Israel, was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books." "ACCORDINGLY, WE MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE'S COUNCIL, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ERETZ ISRAEL AND OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, HEREBY DECLARE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH STATE IN ERETZ ISRAEL."

that obvious fact (Israel being State of the Jewish People) it needs to be put in writing, chiseled in stone, seared into brains of all the antisemites world over. Good & smart move that, knowing our Lunatics of the United Left, shall promptly be bemoaned as another "apartheid-measure.

So in the Jewish state is the high priest in charge? Or is it the king? Surely you don't want either of those positions. The problem with Jewish state is that Jacob nor Israel is all Jewish. There are unidentified individuals that sojourn as strangers along with Israel. In fact they haven't even been established. There are a series of events that must take place before that can happen, like the actual fulfillment of Deuteronomy.

Surely the are Jews amongst them and a plethora of ex Christians, Muslims and who ever the Lord so chooses. Just as the Lord taught Moses, who then taught the children of Israel a history they did not know.