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| Following are excerpts from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting today:
"Today, the Cabinet will discuss an amendment to , to the effect that anyone seeking to become a naturalized Israeli citizen will declare the he or she will be a loyal citizen of the state of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.
In 1896, Theodor (Binyamin Zeev) Herzl wrote: 'The Jews who are seeking a state will have a state. Finally, we will live as free people on our own land.'
Fifty-one years later, on the eve of independence, David Ben-Gurion wrote: 'The state that will be established will be Jewish in its purpose, designation and objective; not a state of those Jews who reside in the country but a state for the Jews, for the Jewish People."
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