Opinion Editorials, May 2010

In the Zionist Entity, Law Makers and Public Call to Outlaw Human Rights Organizations

By Adib S. Kawar

Al-Jazeerah: CCUN, May 31, 2010

 
“Promised Land”-- news and opinion from Israel – Ma’ariv (p. 12) by Arik Bender, wrote an article dated April 29th 2010 entitled Knesset moves to outlaw human rights organizations in Israel, “Something very troubling is happening to “the only democracy in the Middle East.”

“More than 20 MKs, including members of opposition party Kadima, proposed a new bill which will make it possible to outlaw the important human rights groups in Israel. Among the organizations mentioned in the proposed bill are Doctors for Human rights, The Coalition of Woman for Peace, The Public Committee against Torture in Israel, and Adalah: the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights. All these organizations receive funds from the New Israeli fund.

The article proceeded saying: “According to a report in Maariv, the new bill will outlaw any organization “which is involved in activity intended to lead to the prosecution or arrest of IDF officers and government officials for war crimes.”  the word “involved” makes it a very broad definition.”

Note the phrase with which the article was started with: “Something very troubling is happening to “the only democracy in the Middle East”. Isn’t this more than true? More than probably it is yes, when we see that more than 20 MKs (The “Israeli Knesset” (which is the “Israeli parliament” , “proposed a new bill which will make it possible to outlaw the important human rights groups in Israel”, and more than half of those who are considered “Israeli” citizenship support limiting and cubing activities of Human Rights organizations!
 
So what is left of democracy if the activities of human rights organizations are limited, curbed and illegitimated, especially in what is claimed to be the only democracy in a whole region and a central part of the world?
 
We mean the rights of the occupied people by a certain group of people, or taking the liberty by the occupier to curb liberty of expression and human rights as a whole, denial of free movement of the occupied citizens, occupy and steal land other kinds of property and/or take the lives of the occupied people by any sort of assassination and not to forget demolishing or occupying property of Palestinian Arabs and throw their residents in the street to be replaced by Zionist racist invaders.
 
We mean in an entity that death penalty by its courts is banned against its citizens, but its executive body, and its elected juridical body including its supreme court of justice, the highest judicial body and permits its executive body to turn around law to permit assassination by its armed forces whether internal or external, which means if death penalty is not permitted by law against the entity’s first class citizens belonging to a certain religious faith, which the state is claimed to be its, but it could be imposed on other categories of citizens and occupied non-citizens who belong to other religious faiths and ethnicities.
 
We mean this entity which permits itself to threaten its neighbors in  Arab and non-Arab states and resistance forces to punish them just because they dare to arm themselves to enable them to defend their sovereignty with effective arms and weapons, because this simply “break the existing balance of power with an illegal entity” that uprooted a whole population from its ancestral homeland, an entity that owns a formidable conventional and unconventional arsenals of arms and weapons. These arsenals that allowed this rogue entity to wage an unending series of wars and terror operations against the indigenous population of the land it occupied and replaced them, as well as threatening its Arab neighbors and far away non-Arab and non-neighboring countries with demolition and destruction, just because they want to develop their lands and strengthen their citizens.
 
We mean this entity that issues an order it calls No 132 by the strength of which  it is legal to put infants on trial and imprison them.
 
A public opinion poll that the “Israeli” daily Haaretz, published that the majority of Jews in occupied Palestine wants to curb the activities of human rights organizations, and punish those who uncover unethical and illegal military activities and punish the press that published information about that.
 
We mean what came out of a poll results published by the daily newspaper Haaretz published in the Zionist entity that shows how undemocratic and un-respectful to human rights is the Zionist entity of “Israel”, whether it is the public or the governmental bodies executive, judicial and legislative.  
 
We mean in this entity where prisoners of war who count about 8000 in the prisons and detention camps of Zionist occupation they suffer catastrophic health conditions and health care that is almost unavailable, and in most cases harmful for health if not deadly, which the occupation authorities present to them to achieve certain special aims. Reports said that in addition to that Zionist doctors practice various types of torture against the prisoners of war, and make of them, as said, doctors use them for experiments for “Israeli” pharmaceutical companies. Also proved reports said that the Zionist entity and those belonging to it steal organs of Palestinian Arab martyrs and sell to trade with them.
 
This poll showed that a majority of the Jewish inhabitants of occupied Palestine are Zionist by all means of the word, and not simply people who belong to the Jewish faith and respect human rights and human dignity irrespective of their religious faith or ethnicity.
 
The published poll results exposed the racism of the vast majority of Jewish faith inhabitants though many of them presence in occupied Palestine in illegal
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The poll said that the vast majority of “Israelis” want to curb or at least support limiting activities of Human Rights organizations, punish who uncover unethical and illegal military actions and bar the press from publishing anything about that.
 
The poll said that 58% of  those canvassed said human rights organization should not be allowed to uncover unethical “Israeli” practices and to practice their activities freely, while 51%  said that there is more excessive freedom of expression then necessary in “Israel”.
 
56% said that that “Israelis” who support punishing the “Jewish state” or boycotting it should themselves be punished.
 
73% support to severely punishing journalists who publish reports that uncover information about unethical and illegal activities committed by the “Israeli” army and/or the )Shabak(.
 
64% see that the “Israeli” press should not be allowed to publish reports that security bodies consider to cause danger to public security.
 
42% said “Israelis” should not be allowed to publish reports of Palestinian sources, which puts the army in a negative position, even if it was proved to be correct.

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