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Africa North
Egypt to strip citizenship of husbands of Israelis
2010-06-06
[Al Arabiya Latest] A Cairo court on Saturday upheld a ruling to strip Egyptian men married to Israeli women of their citizenship in a case that has highlighted national sentiment towards Israel.

Judge Mohammed al-Husseini sitting on the Supreme Administrative Court
Administrative court? What on earth is that?
said the interior ministry must ask cabinet to take the necessary steps to strip Egyptian men married to Israeli women, and their children, of their citizenship.

The court said that each case should be considered separately, in a ruling that cannot be appealed.

The ruling reflects Egyptian sentiment towards Israel, 30 years after Egypt signed an unpopular peace deal with the Jewish state.

Lawyer Nabil al-Wahsh said he originally brought the case to court so as to prevent the creation of a generation "disloyal to Egypt and the Arab world."

Children of such marriages "should not be allowed to perform their military service," he said.

The number of Egyptian men married to Israeli women is thought to be around 30,000, according to Wahsh,
That seems like rather a lot.
only 10 percent of whom are married to Arab Israelis.
Interesting...
A lower court ruled last year that the interior minister must look into the cases of Egyptian men married to Israeli women, and their children, in order to "take the necessary steps to strip them of their nationality."
Wouldn't such children have Israeli citizenship anyway?
The interior and foreign ministries had appealed the case, saying it was for parliament to decide on such matters.

Thousands of Egyptians, particularly a large number who lived in Iraq and returned after the 1990 Gulf War over Kuwait, moved to Israel in search of work and married Israeli women.
Went native, did they?
Posted by:Fred

#5  30,000 Israeli women - no citizenship

Goodluck Smock1954, nothing in the article indicates the Israeli women lost or gave up their citizenship, and I'm not aware that their children would not automatically get Israeli citizenship, regardless whether they were reared as Jews or Muslims... or even as worshippers of Moog the Great Destroyer, which religion as far as I know I just invented. Am I mistaken? (It has been known to happen, much more often than I like...)
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-06-06 19:21  

#4  seriously, sometimes those hard-line Arab countries do things that I would love to see in the U.S.. Can you imagine all of the disloyal generations of Americans we could've avoided if we had started revoking citizenship away from people who were married to foreigners? Of course I never would've been born but... just think of the possibilites.(sarcasm)
Posted by: Sheater Scourge of the Welsh5221   2010-06-06 17:04  

#3  There must be 10 or 12 American males married to Mexican ladies in my small town of 500 people and they seem to be as well adjusted as the rest of us.
Posted by: bman   2010-06-06 11:15  

#2  What happens when an American marries a Mexican wife?


Hopefully, they settle down, have some kids, and have a nice life.
Posted by: badanov   2010-06-06 09:10  

#1  Lets do the math:

30,000 Egyptian men - no citizenship

30,000 Israeli women - no citizenship

3.1 children per average Egyptian household 90,000 potential children - no citizenship

150,000 persons with no citizenship (stateless)

78.7 million Egyptian population (2010)

Seems like a small number but, when the Egyptians get around to the next group say Egyptian Christians or Egyptians married to other "haram" groups, then what ?
Posted by: Goodluck Smock1954    2010-06-06 08:47  

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