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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that is the answer- aipac IS a lobbying arm of a foreign government and [b]no us citizens who have dual nationality should work in government.[/b]  I say this as a dual national. [/quote]

I’ve seen this statement a lot on this page and it makes me wonder, when people say this are they talking about those who hold citizenship from both Israel and the United States or are they talking about American citizens who are Jewish? Because those two things are not the same but more and more I’m beginning to feel that people don’t understand that very real difference. [/quote]

Jewish is not a nationality. It seems like you're the only one who doesn't understand the difference? No one who works in any level of the US government should have dual citizenship anywhere. Israel, Saudi Arabia, UK, Sealand, wherever. I don't care about anyone's personal religion.

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I'm the PP who asked this question and I do understand the difference. I also know that lately this question of "dual loyalty/dual nationality" only seems to get applied around issues related to zionism or Israel, and often it feels like there's an underlying suggestion that Jews, regardless of their citizenship, can't be trusted to have America's best interest at heart.

For what it's worth, I'm a 4th generation American Jew with family in Israel but I'm not a dual citizen. I'm also someone who believes in the vision of Israel but detests the current government and has actively participated in the growing protest movement whenever I'm in Israel (most of my Israeli family members and friends were a part of yesterday's strike and protests). This idea that all Israelis are just one thing, that their very presence there makes them complicit in what's going on in Gaza, baffles me. Are all Americans wholly represented by the Trump administration and it's decisions? [/quote]

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