Dual Citizenship Allowed for Top US Government Officials, but not Israeli

Israel is the tail wagging the US dog

Why does the US allow dual citizenship for top officials but Israel doesn’t?

US-born and bred Ron Dermer, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States from 2013-2021 and Strategic Affairs Minister since 2022, was required by Israel to renounce his US citizenship before taking up these positions. The logic behind this requirement is hard to dispute - top governmental officials of any nation cannot serve two masters.

Dermer gave up his US citizenship in 2005 to become the economic attache at the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-753739

Another Israeli Ambassador to the US, US-born Michael Oren, also relinquished his American citizenship. Both are committed Zionists.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-753739

However, Amos Hochstein, the US “peace” envoy to Israel and US Senior Advisor for Energy Security, was born in 1973 in Israel. He served in the IDF as a tank crewman until the mid 1990s and took part in Israel’s 1993 invasion of Lebanon.

In 2022, Haaretz called Hochstein a “dishonest broker”, writing:

What’s Israeli to me? Amos Hochstein. To the Interior Ministry, he’s also Israeli. A Jerusalemite. If you ask the IDF, you’ll find he’s simply a tank crewman, no more and no less.

In a 2012 interview, Hochstein’s wife said, “My husband is Israeli…” At that time, Hochstein was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Diplomacy in the US State Department.

I could find no information on whether Hochstein has renounced his Israeli citizenship. When he’s been asked, he’s not responded.

It’s unclear if current Secretary of State Antony Blinken, an avowed Zionist who has been dubbed “Israel’s lawyer,” holds an Israeli passport.

There have been some moves to require members of Congress to renounce their dual citizenship or, at a minimum, to disclose it. Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) proposed that:

dual citizens elected to United States Congress should renounce citizenship in all other countries. At a minimum, they should disclose their citizenship in other countries and abstain from votes specifically benefitting those countries.

Massie disclosed that every Republican member of Congress, except for himself, has an AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) babysitter to ensure they don’t deviate from Israeli interests. The same is probably true for many Democrat members and explains the 58 standing ovations Congress gave Netanyahu during his July address.

In the last Congress, Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) proposed H.R.7484 - Dual Citizenship Disclosure Act, which would require Members of Congress who are foreign nationals to file a statement with the appropriate congressional ethics committee describing their status as a foreign national. Failure to comply would result in a fine of $2500. AIPAC has ensured the bill has ZERO co-sponsors.

What about the UK? UK law allows dual citizens to hold elected office. Boris Johnson only renounced his US citizenship in 2016 while serving as Foreign Secretary. The civil service allows dual citizens but imposes some restrictions for reserved posts. Even MI5 and MI6 allow dual nationals, but again, with restrictions for sensitive positions.

The Ministry of Defence allows dual nationals with some exceptions but applicants to the Ministry of Defence Police must be sole UK nationals. When perusing the Ministry of Defence Police website, I came across this vacancy:

https://www.mod.police.uk/current-opportunities/

It couldn’t be clearer - the UK considers Scotland a REGION.

I don’t know of any UK law requiring MPs and top government officials to disclose nationality status. At a time when Israel, the UK’s “ally", is committing a genocide with UK government support, don’t you think this information should be available to the public? But I’m sure that Labour/Conservative/Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel is working hard to keep that information under wraps.