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Israel Moves Toward a National Biometric Database

An anonymous reader writes "Israeli's government has approved the creation of a biometric database which would contain fingerprints and facial photos of all Israeli citizens. If the bill becomes law — and it is at an early stage — the biometric information of each citizen would be embedded in their passport and national ID card. Israeli citizens would be required by law to submit to biometric testing upon request by government employees, soldiers, and policemen, so that their biometric info can be compared to the info embedded in their ID card / passport. The declared purpose of the bill is to combat forgery of passports and ID cards, and also to aid identification 'in cases of a mass disaster.' The bill was approved over objections from civil rights groups and the Israeli Bar. The article notes that no other democratic country has a comprehensive biometric database of all citizens."

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  1. MARK OF THE BEAST by Wonderkid · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Once again, the Jews set the terms for their own destruction by failing to believe just how evil the outside world is and making it much easier for people who gain access to this information to target specific individuals. Very worrying for one reason: It is not optional! What can you do? Refuse to have your details obtained or leave the country.

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  2. little green crescents by Gothmolly · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Will they make the Palestinians all wear little green crescent badges on their clothes ?

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  3. Re:And if you listen closely... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Israel is reacting to the threats of regular terrorist bombings.

    So, if I choose to come and steal your land and you fight back that would make you a "terrorist"? Not buying it.

  4. Endless cycle of violence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The purpose of the biometric testing is to restrict the movements of non-Jews in Israel. Jewish businessmen want Arabs to do their less desirable work, but Arabs may not support Jewish policies, so all of their movements must be tracked.

    The U.S. government is already fighting a war with Iran. There is talk of "diplomacy", but that is only to limit awareness of what the corrupters are doing. There are three groups of people who want war with Iran: weapons investors, oil investors, and Jews. The situation is the same as before invading Iraq. There was talk of diplomacy, but the leaders in Iraq knew that the U.S. government would invade, no matter what was said, so they acted in a hysterical fashion.

    The purpose of invading Iran seems to be the same as the purpose of invading Iraq: to restrict the supply of oil even further, so that oil prices will rise even further.

    Jews want U.S. citizens to pay for a war with Iran because Jews supported a war with Iraq, and that made other people in the region feel even more threatened, and there is talk of war with Israel. Jews supported a war with Iraq because Saddam Hussein did not like the way they were treating Arabs.

    Israel is a country formed of immigrants. The Jews in Europe were not wanted there, because they were seen to be destructive of the common good, such as involvement in manipulating the currency. Jews were restricted in Russia. The idea of forming Israel was that Jews weren't welcome anywhere, so forming a new country would give them somewhere to go. But they have made themselves unwelcome in the region around Israel, also.

  5. Wow. fuck you Nazi trolls by gelfling · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nothing like a technical article that includes "Jews" or "Israel" to bring out all the fuckheads.

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    1. Re:Wow. fuck you Nazi trolls by Eli+Gottlieb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Note, just to choose one example, that the Israeli police admit (and often seem fairly proud) that torture of suspects is a routine procedure.

      Just to clear this up, yes, Israel does torture Palestinian suspects. I don't like it, neither do you. However, that's irrelevant to the balancing of freedom versus security for actual citizens, which they were doing rather well on.

      Of course, they could do better on the human rights of Palestinians. No contest there.

      And let me bring up, yet again, the fact that Haredi men seem to be empowered to commit criminal assault on any woman who refuses to kowtow to their nutty fundamentalism.

      Just because a few Haredi men have gotten away with assault of women doesn't mean the entire country bends to aid Haredi men in assaulting women. Is the USA responsible for when a woman gets mugged and raped in the ghetto? Haredi neighborhoods are not nice places. I don't mean to excuse what these men did, but the entire society is not responsible for a few criminal assaults.

      The state pays Haredi men not to work. I think there's quite a bit to not like about a nation that explicitly privileges its most insane religious elements.

      The state exempts Haredim from army service, and gives them welfare just like it gives all other poor people welfare. Of course, the Haredim are poor because they refuse to take jobs, but apparently giving them welfare is still better than having a bunch of rioting Haredim.

  6. Re:And if you listen closely... by Curtman · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If you want to draw a tie between Nazis and the Israeli State, you're going to have to work harder.

    Yeah.. The Nazis were already in Germany. The Israelies stole the land of their undermensch and forced them out.

  7. Re:And if you listen closely... by tmosley · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I see the Mossad has mod points today.

    In any event, the Nazis could be said by apologists to be reacting to the systematic destruction of their economy by bankers, a profession largely dominated by Jews at the time. Of course, that is a bogus reason, and is no excuse for their actions. At most, they should have put those responsible on trial, but that obviously didn't happen, instead choosing to slaughter a whole people.

    If they had left the Jews in the ghettos for much longer, you probably would have started to see Jewish suicide bombers. Israel has kept the Palestinians largely in "ghettos" for more than half a century, and are continually clamping down, and whenever anyone resists, they roll in with tanks and bulldozers and wind up killing a bunch of civilians, especially women and children, which only triggers increased enrollment in terrorist organizations, and increased hatred towards Israel.

    If ever a group of people deserved reparations, the Palestinians are them. They have been enormously oppressed, and continue to be oppressed. The United State's support for the continued apartheid of Israel honestly dumbfounds me.

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  8. Re:You would think that they would learn from hist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It deeply saddens me that this kind of comment can get score 4 on this forum. Is some bad legislation enough to justify opinion that there is no difference between jews and nacis? Or is it just an excuse? Shame on you.

    They get closer if you combine the police state stuff with the slaughter of the Palestinians.

  9. Re:You would think that they would learn from hist by couchslug · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The Israelis have an interesting problem:

    Their country is heavily iniltrated with genuine, committed cultural enemies who want it destroyed and to push the Jews into the Med.

    Slashdotian ideals of total freedom to do absolutely anything absolutely un-monitored by anyone (and by the way, fuck the Maaaan!!!) work fine when everyone are good buddies in a social monoculture, and less fine in a society in a permanent and inevitable state of war.

    It makes perfect sense for Israel to have the systems necessary to track and confirm the identities of all its citizens, so the enemy Arabs may be watched and dealt with. (That's no troll, merely a blunt observation of fact.)

    The moral rightness of this policy (especially now that Israel is the bad guy for resisting internal warfare instead of the pluck good guy for resisting external attack) is debatable, but the logic behind it is flawless.

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