re ten questions about israel in article igc apc org cpr igc apc org center for policy research writes from center for policy research cpr subject ten questions about israel ten questions to israelis i would be thankful if any of you who live in israel could help to provide accurate answers to the following specific questions these are indeed provocative questions but they are asked time and again by people around me i lived there until july so i think that on the whole my input is relevant is it true that the israeli authorities don t recognize israeli nationality and that id cards which israeli citizens must carry at all times identify people as jews or arabs not as israelis those are two separate questions obviously israeli authorities do recognize israeli nationality for some purposes e g passports consular services etc id cards have a field of nationality which is a subdivision of the above ostensibly this field is provided for sevices provided by the religious departments of the gov t though this is not the general case is it true that the state of israel has no fixed borders and that israeli governments from until today have refused to state where the ultimate borders of the state of israel should be from its onset israel s borders have been shaped and reshaped by both war and peace as such the israeli gov t has always felt that defining its borders is a step that is meaningful only after peace treaties have been conluded with its neighbors there is no plan for ultimate borders is this a game like ultimate frisbee extending into other countries is it true that israeli stocks nuclear weapons if so could you provide any evidence aside from what vaanunu provided no is it true that in israeli prisons there are a number of individuals which were tried in secret and for which their identities the date of their trial and their imprisonment are state secrets if that is true then by virtue of the question s subject it is unanswerable anyone who claims its validity is claiming an oxymoron that having been said i deny the above you go on to ask quite a number of questions that show an obvious bias questions of the sort is it true that you entered your mother s vagina which are based upon some kernel of truth though phrased in a way as to render them repugnant and cast aspersions upon israel incidentally the answer to the above is usually yes unless you were born via a c section shai guday stealth bombers os software engineer thinking machines corp the winged ninjas of the skies cambridge ma
