(National Review) Daniel Pipes - After the 1993 Oslo Accords, 137,000 residents of the Palestinian Authority moved to Israel between 1994 and 2002 under the family-reunification provision, some of them engaged in either sham or polygamous marriages. Yuval Diskin, head of the Israel Security Agency, noted in 2005 that of 225 Israeli Arabs involved in terror against Israel, 25 had legally entered Israel through the family-unification provision. They killed 19 Israelis and wounded 83. In response, Israel's parliament in July 2003 passed a law prohibiting Palestinian family members from automatically gaining Israeli residency or citizenship. Last week, Israel's Supreme Court upheld this law. As Judge Asher Dan Grunis wrote in the majority opinion, "Human rights are not a prescription for national suicide."
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