In the Culture of Love, All Are Welcome to Live in this Land

In his article, Yohanna Katanacho discusses the relationship between Israeli Jews (both indigenous and settlers) and other indigenous people classified as foreigners. His thoughts focus on the issue of equal ownership of the country. He believes that Jews originally owe their land to God’s covenant, specifically his love and mercy, rather than their military successes. Implicitly, his writing echoes the Deuteronomic declaration that the people received the land from the Lord as a dwelling place. He derives the legal basis for the possession of the land from the Book of Ezekiel (33:23–29). In his argument, he rejects the classification of non- Jewish citizens as second-class citizens, a categorisation imposed by politics. As a reassuring solution, the author proposes the introduction of ethnic and religious multiculturalism.