Amos Schocken admits in his editorial what the Palestinians have experienced during the six past decades, - that Israel operating on the occupied Palestinian territories, acts as an apartheid state, that Israeli has institutionalized and legalized discrimination, build on race and religion.

The Israeli government's decision last week to extend the Temporary Citizenship Law for another year,displaying the legal barriers that prevented severe discrimination against Arab citizens and harm to their civil rights,have been removed.

It is the eighth time the government has extended a "temporary" citizenship law,that in its most crucial element, an apartheid marriage law, that prohibit someone from living in Israel if he/she married an indigenous Palestinian from the West Bank and added Gaza.Strip to the list of countries for which the Israeli Interior ministry does not have the official right to approve residency,regardless of age in Israel on the base of family reunions.

The amendment to the Citizenship Law, first passed in 2003 stipulates that the Israeli interior ministry does not have authority to approve residency in Israel for a resident of Judea and Samaria,if a Palestinian native.The same stipulation applies also to family reunions [marriage] Palestinian spouses younger than 25.The law prevents Israeli citizens from marry one of their own choice, and for the couple to live inside Israel, if the spouse is a Palestinian from Judea and Samaria.