[Piranha]

I guess I agree with Shimon Peres (should this be a vanity post in breaking news?).

I really don't think that, as an American Jew, I should be able to go to Israel, demand citizenship based upon the Law of Return, register to vote and then move back to the relative safety of the US and be entitled to vote for people who will decide on matters that never touch me (Israeli security, taxation, etc.).

Same goes for Israelis who, after many years, have decided to live elsewhere. The only exceptions that I could see are for Israeli government officials and certain key employees of other companies, which should be decided on a case-by-case basis (just what Israel needs -- another bureaucracy). But of course this is just my idea, as an American living outside of Israel.

I also don't want to see groups like the American Reform Jews -- or Agudah, for that matter -- running missions to Israel to register their constituents to vote and then returning to the US to press their agendas.

I hope that this issue goes nowhere.

Then again, as an American, I don't have any say on whether Israel enacts this law, do I?

[anotherview]

FWIW, there is already an exemption for Israelis on diplomatic postings.

In regard to both of us agreeing with Shimon Peres this time all I can say is that even a broken clock is right twice a day. Actually, I think Peres did Israel a great service in pushing for us having a nuclear deterrent. He is the architect of Dimona and for that I am grateful. He's still not someone I could ever vote for, though.