The right wing in Israel wants a loyalty oath. This is a measure directed at the 20% of the population that is Arab. I assume that in the not-too-distant future, it will be the cudgel by which this minority will be prosecuted for what a prosecutor terms "disloyalty".
Democracies usually do not need such oaths. America had them in the early post-WW II anti-communist mania, but found it did not need them.
However, the clamor for such an oath is redolent of the 20th century, too, too remindful; a terrible souvenir from the past. But the past is not present anymore. It has disappeared, and we all sit in the Glass Booth of Television (parallel to Tel Aviv) and look at the limited view we have of reality: we see the West Bank... ... und Westjordanland ist unser Lebensraum.
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