well let's bring in senior analyst from the jerusalem center for public affairs thanks for joining us good to have you all know it's been a controversial law so far as not to say the least critics are saying this marginalize is degrades israel's israel's arab community would you agree with that statement. no i think that's an inaccurate statement in fact the bill factually doesn't change the protected status of israel's minorities whatsoever all this bill does is to allow israel to join scores of other states around the world who have defined a national character of the majority of those countries now the problem with states around the world like saudi arabia and iran and other muslim majority countries is that they don't protect the minority rights in their own country israel does the opposite it protects its minority rights its religious and its cultural freedoms and in fact that's why i think you heard prime minister. israel is the only country the middle east that does that while at the same time finally defines in law israel's character as the nation state of the jewish people it

new jerusalem center for public affairs he said the law is not discriminatory the shift in status merely allows israel to in shrine in the law that hebrew is the official language of the state arabic is a language with special status meaning any kind of institution organization association will continue to have arabic as a special language and the islam as a culture the muslim religion as a religion as well as the arab national status of israel's arab minority will be preserved one hundred percent the only difference here is that the government and the knesset wanted to underscore the importance of having a jewish emblem as the official emblem a jewish the jewish language of thirty seven hundred years which is hebrew as the official language jewish holidays is the official holidays just like scores of other countries around the world it is absolutely not discriminatory whatsoever. rising numbers of white farmers in south africa are considering emigrating as cases of. rise home some seeing russia will place to resettle make a fresh start. are descendants of dutch speaking saddle heirs of