Court serving the government
Court serving the government
Chaim Misgav, YNET NEWS
New laws were created in on order to silence people and block legitimate acts of protest. Courts, prosecutors and the police simply lent a hand to destroy everything that took years of toil to build: A well-run country that respects the legal rights of its citizens.
The Chief Justice didn't like the hot potato he got four years ago: David Axelrod, convicted of offenses committed under the directive to prevent terrorism for comments he made on the radio following the murder of Yitzhak Rabin.
He appealed his conviction, but nothing helped – not freedom of speech, nor the claim that the order to prevent terrorism falls on terror organizations, not on individuals.
But Axelrod didn't give up. Once it became clear to him that the Supreme Court created a new law with regard to Mohammed Yousef Jabarin, an Arab poet from Umm al-Fahm who praises terrorist murder in his poems, he demanded a retrial. Aharon Barak didn't like the request, to put it mildly, and sent the appealer to request a presidential pardon.
The prosecution agreed, but Moshe Katsav, himself a well-worn politician who probably has plans of returning to politics, understood that one doesn't play games with the Rabin assassination.
He rejected the request for a pardon. Now, Chief Justice Barak has no choice, and on the eve of the Sukkot holiday, despite the unfortunate timing – a few days before the tenth anniversary of the Rabin murder –Barak asked Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to acquit Axelrod.
If Mazuz refuses, Barak will order a re-trial.
Sad light
The case sheds a bit of a sad light once again on the justice department. These things were said mainly in light of Dr. Avital Molad's words in recent days in an internal memo prepared by the public defender: Important rights of the suspected and the accused were sacrificed on the altar of the Gaza disengagement. [..]
Posted by Ted Belman at October 20, 2005 10:34 AM
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BobW
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I believe directives to prevent terrorism have exceptions. Certain persons could meet with the PLO if this would assist in their political career enhancement.
The entire judiciary system is indeed tarnished but it goes well beyond that.
Dealing with them ratifies their legitimacy.
Israel is not a Jewish nation but rather a warmer Latvia, 1930. Judaism teaches that even the Sanhedren can become a den of pagen barbarians. See Ezekiel 8: 1-9.
Jaazaniah, son of Shaphan and 70 others, have decendents in the State of Israel.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on October 20, 2005 11:30 AM
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Ed D
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Like the rest of the Parliment (if Israel keeps this form of democracy), I believe that election of Justices is a prerequesite of of the MPs to advise and confirm. Just as in the US, the perponderance of judges are left wing elites and it is imperative that both countries go back to it's roots.
Posted by: Ed D on October 20, 2005 03:17 PM
Court serving the government
Chaim Misgav, YNET NEWS
The Chief Justice didn't like the hot potato he got four years ago: David Axelrod, convicted of offenses committed under the directive to prevent terrorism for comments he made on the radio following the murder of Yitzhak Rabin.
He appealed his conviction, but nothing helped – not freedom of speech, nor the claim that the order to prevent terrorism falls on terror organizations, not on individuals.
But Axelrod didn't give up. Once it became clear to him that the Supreme Court created a new law with regard to Mohammed Yousef Jabarin, an Arab poet from Umm al-Fahm who praises terrorist murder in his poems, he demanded a retrial. Aharon Barak didn't like the request, to put it mildly, and sent the appealer to request a presidential pardon.
The prosecution agreed, but Moshe Katsav, himself a well-worn politician who probably has plans of returning to politics, understood that one doesn't play games with the Rabin assassination.
He rejected the request for a pardon. Now, Chief Justice Barak has no choice, and on the eve of the Sukkot holiday, despite the unfortunate timing – a few days before the tenth anniversary of the Rabin murder –Barak asked Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to acquit Axelrod.
If Mazuz refuses, Barak will order a re-trial.
Sad light
The case sheds a bit of a sad light once again on the justice department. These things were said mainly in light of Dr. Avital Molad's words in recent days in an internal memo prepared by the public defender: Important rights of the suspected and the accused were sacrificed on the altar of the Gaza disengagement. [..]
Posted by Ted Belman at October 20, 2005 10:34 AM