Oaths compared

The BBC are shocked to report that:

'Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has re-introduced a proposal to require any non-Jew taking Israeli citizenship to swear allegiance to Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state".'

This is reported under the banner headline 'Israel's Netanyahu backs Jewish loyalty oath'
If you read on you learn that this is not as dramatic as it first sounds as

'If approved, the new law will affect a small number of non-Jews who seek Israeli citizenship.

It will not affect those who seek citizenship under the law of return which gives people of Jewish ancestry the right to settle in Israel and gain citizenship.

Correspondents say it will mainly apply to Palestinians married to Israelis who seek citizenship on the basis of family re-unification, foreign workers, and a few other special cases.'

The report hides at its end a fact that sound innocuous but is in fact anything but:

'Recognition of Israel as a Jewish state is one of Israel's key demands in any eventual peace deal with the Palestinians.

To that end, Mr Netanyahu has rejected the right of return of Palestinian refugees, calling it a device to destroy the state of Israel by demography.

The Palestinians, in the form of the Palestinian Authority, have agreed to recognise Israel as a state, but have rejected the demand to recognise its Jewish character.

They say it is unnecessary, that it ignores the Israeli-Arab citizens of Israel, and that in effect, it invalidates the right of return of refugees from previous wars.'

Shall we compare the coverage of this affront to democracy by the apartheid state of Israel to the coverage by the BBC of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's pledge that:

'if a Palestinian Authority state is created in Judea and Samaria, no Israeli citizen will be allowed to set foot inside.... "I will never allow a single Israeli to live among us on Palestinian land,”'

But this article is about oaths not hatred of Jews, so here is part of the Pakistan Oath as, I believe, sworn by parliamentarians and Judges:

'I, xxxxx yyyyy zzzzz do swear solemnly that l am a Muslim and believe in the Unity and Oneness of Almighty Allah, the Books of Allah, the Holy Quran being the last of them, the Prophethood of Muhammad (peace be upon him) as the last of the Prophets and that there can be no Prophet after him, the Day of Judgment, and all the requirements and teachings of the Holy Quran and Sunnah'

Is there much room there for a non-Muslim to swear such an oath? Have the BBC ever complained about such an oath?

Once again the BBC re on the bash Israel bandwagon but give Islamic countries are free-ride for similar infringements.