Opinion Editorials, July 24, 2009

Are Israeli Courts Staffed by Nazi Judges?

By Khalid Amayreh

ccun.org, July 24, 2009

Just as anti-Semitism became official policy in  Germany in the mid 1930s, it  seems hostility toward  Arabs, especially Israel’s own 1.5 million Palestinian citizens,  is becoming a de facto official policy of the Israeli state.
 
This ominous orientation is being constantly promoted by a number of manifestly racist cabinet ministers and Knesset members who declare openly that their aim is to make everyone in Israel “submit to the Jewish nature of the state.”
 
The brash racism is now permeating through the entire apparatus of the Jewish state, from the police, to the justice system, to the army, to the educational system and, of course, the media.
 
Last week, Israeli courts  showed off  their  racist credentials  when two Israeli settlers, a murderer and a would-be murderer were acquitted  of murdering a Palestinian and seriously wounding two others.
 
In the first case,  a  West Jerusalem judge acquitted  a Jewish settler named Ze’ev Braude who had shot and seriously injured two unarmed Palestinians in al-Khalil ( Hebron )  several months ago.
 
The settler was caught on video shooting at the  two Palestinians who were pleading to Israeli troops to stop rampaging settlers from attacking their homes and families. The settlers were vandalizing Arab property and trying to set homes on fire in protest against the evacuation by the army of Jewish squatters who  had seized an Arab building  a few years earlier.
 
Braude’s lawyer reportedly asked for “classified information” which he said  would help clear his client of any wrongdoing.  However, instead of meeting the lawyer’s request, the attorney-general decided to drop all charges against Braude.  Thus the would-be killer, who had shot and seriously injured two innocent Palestinians,  was effectively declared innocent.
 
In the second case, a Jewish farmer by the name of Shai Dromi was acquitted of manslaughter by a Bir al Saba’a (Beer Shiva) court despite damning evidence indicting him.
 
In 2007, Dromi shot and killed a Bedouin “infiltrator,” claiming that he was trying to steal his livestock.
 
Racist system
 
One doesn’t have to be a great expert on Israel to be able to describe the Israeli justice system as inherently racist, being based on religious-ethno centricism.
 
Indeed, had the victims been Jewish, there is not the slightest doubt that the perpetrators would have been given harsh prison sentences, without a chance for parole for decades.
 
However, in a state that murders innocent children at will “for self-defense” and lies as often as it breathes, this type of justice ought to be viewed as being  within the normal order of things.
 
Indeed, Israel itself, one might argue perfectly rightly, is a crime against humanity, having been created on the ruins of another people, the Palestinians.
 
Hence, it is only “natural” and “normal” that Israeli courts would deal with utmost flaccidity and utter leniency with Jewish perpetrators of crimes as long as the victim is not a member of the “holy tribe.”
 
This tradition goes back to the establishment of Israel more than 62 years when a  given Jewish murderer of a Palestinian was fined a dime on the ground that the  life of a non-Jew wasn’t  worth more than a dime.
 
A few years ago, an Israeli soldier who was serving in southern Gaza murdered a Palestinian school child, Iman al Hums, as she was going to school.
 
The soldier, dubbed Captain R.  shot  and seriously wounded the young girl,  and as he saw  her agonize and wallow in pain, he walked toward her, empting an entire magazine of bullets into her tender body to make sure that she was dead and didn’t pose a threat to his life.
 
The practice is  still widely practiced in the Israeli army and is known as “verifying the kill.”
 
The reaction of the Israeli justice system to this event was very telling, indeed.
 
For instead of prosecuting and punishing the murderer, the Israeli army actually awarded him thousands of dollars in damages  he claimed he deserved because his reputation was tarnished by the media.
 
Westerners, especially North Americans, who have been consuming Zionist lies for decades may be prompted to think that the above-mentioned cases are an aberration and in no way represent Israel’s general behaviors.
 
However, the truth, which Israel and her supporters strive to hide from the eyes of the world, is that the Israeli justice system is inherently and profoundly racist, to put it mildly, especially when non-Jews, particularly Palestinians, are involved.
 
In recent years, hundreds of settler judges and others affiliated with extremist  terrorist Jewish groups, such as the Kahana group, Gush Emunim and Chabad infiltrated the Israeli justice system.
 
These people are indoctrinated in the Nazi-like ideology that Jews are genetically and humanly superior than non-Jews and that Jewish lives are worth more than non-Jewish lives.
 
Hence, when a Jew and a non-Jew appear in court, the Jewish judge feels obliged to take all these considerations into account and refrain, as much as possible, from  passing stiff punishments against Jewish defendants.
 
This is often done by meticulously searching for or even concocting  extenuating circumstances, or by finding a procedural loophole, that would make the judge seriously reduce the proscribed punishment for the Jewish defendant or acquit him of any wrongdoing.
 
Israel claims to be a western country, a democracy and a state where the rule of law is upheld.
 
Well, this trinity of lies should be obvious for anyone who has had the opportunity to know Israel first-hand.
 
But, there is always a certain level of “veracity” in these claims. In Israel , the rule of law is indeed  upheld just as the rule of law was also upheld in Nazi Germany .
 
But the question remains, what laws are exactly  being upheld? (end)