USSR's KGB consigned dissidents to psychiatric hospitals; Israel's KGB...
USSR's KGB consigned dissidents to psychiatric hospitals; Israel's KGB...
Likening Israel's police to the KGB and Stasi may appear to some as hyperbole, but each day brings more proof that the analogy is warranted. Consider the following report from al-Ha'aretz:
State: Parents of underage activists may lose guardianship
The State Prosecution is considering the use of the Juvenile Law against parents of minors who have been arrested repeatedly for blocking highways, said a senior source at the State Prosecution on Tuesday. Such a move would allow courts to monitor parental supervision of their children and in extreme cases to strip the parents off their guardianship.
Senior officials at the State Prosecution held two meetings with welfare authority officials in order to examine the possibility of using the Juvenile Law against minors whose parents do not prevent them or systematically encourage them to engage in blocking highways. Should such an interpretation of the Juvenile Law be employed those parents would be considered to have encouraged their children to engage in criminal activity.
Under such circumstances welfare workers would be able to request the court to employ various measures, the harshest of which is stripping the minor's parents off their guardianship...
The initiative came in response to the high number of minors arrested in mass road blockages by anti-disengagement activists three weeks ago. Most of the 409 activists arrested that day in dozens of crossroads across Israel were minors. Out of the 14 activists still in custody, 7 are minors.
Throughout their arrest many minors refused to identify themselves to authorities. Five of the last female minors to remain in custody who refused to disclose their identity finally consented to give their names early this week, but have not yet been released due to their refusal to sign on the restrictive conditions of their release.
IMRA's comment on this news item:
Yes. The Government of Israel has gone off the deep end. The message from the top is to push hard to suppress opposition to the retreat from the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria - and if pushing hard doesn't work to push even harder. The sick joke of two days ago becomes the rumor yesterday and policy today. It would surprise few if in a few weeks the State argues that any settler who doesn't send their children out by a deadline set before the retreat is guilty of reckless endangerment and their children should be immediately seized and placed in foster homes.
I weep for thee, Israel.
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at June 8, 2005 08:01 AM
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USSR's KGB consigned dissidents to psychiatric hospitals; Israel's KGB...
Likening Israel's police to the KGB and Stasi may appear to some as hyperbole, but each day brings more proof that the analogy is warranted. Consider the following report from al-Ha'aretz:
IMRA's comment on this news item:
I weep for thee, Israel.
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at June 8, 2005 08:01 AM