The excellent South Jerusalem blog has an excellent take on what might happen should the Loyalty law come into effect.
“Watzman?”
That’s right,” I said jauntily.
“Yes, your Honor,” the policewoman corrected me.
I found myself in the crossfire of three judicial glares.
“Yes, your Honor,” I repeated, with all due humility.
“And what brings you here, Watzman?” Justice Porat asked me.
I puffed up my chest. “I have come,” I said confidently, “to declare my loyalty to the State of Israel.”
Identity Justice Re’alitisho leaned back in his leather chair and smiled. “And why,” he asked me, “do you feel a need to declare your loyalty to the state of Israel?”
“Being a good citizen,” I said, “and seeing as our duly-elected parliament has legislated that citizenship is conditional on taking a loyalty oath, I have come to declare my allegiance to the Jewish state.”
The three judges looked at me impassively. It was the first time that a shadow of doubt fell across my mind. I steeled myself and repeated:
“Being a good citizen…”
Identity Justice Shomron cut me off. “We’re the ones who will decide if you are good citizen.”
“But I am,” I said. “I sing ‘Hatikvah.’ I pay my taxes. I served in the army.”
Identity Justice Re’alitisho’s ponytail undulated as he guffawed. “He pays his taxes!” he noted to his colleagues. “And he claims to be Israeli.”
As Littlejohn almost says: I wish it wasn't made up
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