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However, last November, the Mitzpeh Aviv community, under the jurisdiction of the Galilee Misgav Regional Council, passed an amendment to its bylaws, stipulating that land allocation be conditional on residents' placing the "highest priorities (on) Zionist values and the values of the state as a Jewish and democratic state."
Earlier, Manof and Yuvalim (also under Misfav Regional Council jurisdiction) passed similar measures. Other communities may follow, then the Knesset for more than housing.
As Israel gets more hardline, it's more likely that extremist laws like these will pass, marginalizing non-Jews, threatening their security, and decreasing chances for Palestinian refugees ever to return home as international law allows.
It's a short leap from current racist laws to repressive ones like Nazi Germany's Gleichschaltung (standardization under which total societal control was imposed) and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws that:
-- protected "German Blood and German Honour";
-- prevented marriage or sexual relations between Jews and Aryans;
-- declared persons with any Jewish blood no longer citizens and denied all rights;
-- banned Jews from holding professional jobs to exclude them from education, politics and industry;
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