tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7014209.post4941267137762126748..comments2024-03-29T14:19:30.130+03:00Comments on My Right Word: Another Legal Travesty of JusticeYMedadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14333122797414935958noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7014209.post-21213965346548032162008-05-30T04:54:00.000+03:002008-05-30T04:54:00.000+03:00”And, remind me, what crime where those Arabs susp...<I>”And, remind me, what crime where those Arabs suspectd of?”</I> <BR/><BR/>Hahaha, that’s the whole point: I don’t know and nobody does because they are in <B><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_detention" REL="nofollow">administrative detention</A></B>, ie, just like in Guantanamo, they never faced a fair trial and are put there on the whim of the security forces. For all I know all of them could be innocent. More likely, some are indeed security threats while many others are just victims of a brutal military regime being imposed on the WB for 40 years. See, for example, <A HREF="http://www.counterpunch.org/levy12172003.html" REL="nofollow">this</A> and <A HREF="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/969308.html" REL="nofollow">this</A> and <A HREF="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/914603.html" REL="nofollow">this</A>, for the examples of our “just” and “humane” system*. Even if all of them are security threats, there is LAW and presumption of innocence, so, if Sin Bet or whoever is so sure they are dangerous let them prove it.<BR/><BR/>But my bigger point is: you won’t find a lot of sympathy crying a river about evacuation of Amona with a couple of bruises and broken arms or some hilltop extremists being tried (for a change!) while never mentioning that this state exercises an incomparably more brutal policy towards Palestinians and peace-activists, as in the Bli’in demonstrations, for example. When the security forces start shooting rubber bullets, god forbid, at dangerous settlers then we could talk about some even-handiness. I say “some”, because in the case of Bli’in they are shooting in an unprovoked manner, as numerous video-tapes have shown.<BR/><BR/>By the way, I in no way advocate shooting bullets, rubber or otherwise, at anybody. I’d rather have the security forces use non-lethal means when confronting even violent demonstrations. However it is precisely some elements in the settler community abetting violence in case the state decides to evacuate them. It is them trying to reach détente with the state, just as it is them that that will cry the loudest once the bullets start flying. To which I say: as you sow so shall you reap. <BR/><BR/>*These, admittedly, are just the first hits you’ll get on Google if you ever try to find out anything about this; bother to read just some of these and let your humane side speak and you’ll feel how terribly wrong and unjust what we are doing to these people is.Peter Drubetskoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10463750011872829081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7014209.post-61214998412964497822008-05-29T06:57:00.000+03:002008-05-29T06:57:00.000+03:00I would like to empathize with the policeman-beati...I would like to empathize with the policeman-beating girl who is held in the jail for the whole of two months. Well, the policeman was a Druze (I guess), so, that doesn't really count. <BR/>But if so, let us also empathize with hundreds of Arabs <A HREF="http://www.btselem.org/English/Administrative_Detention/" REL="nofollow">held in administrative detention in Israeli jails</A>, as well <A HREF="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/983036.html" REL="nofollow">unarmed protesters shot by the IDF/Border Police</A>.Peter Drubetskoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10463750011872829081noreply@blogger.com