A Sad Day For Civil Liberty In Israel

www.israelnationalnews

11-14-3

 

"It's a happy day for the Israel Air Force in Fort Worth, Texas. The first of the force's new F-16-I fighter plane will roll off the Lockheed Martin assembly line this afternoon, and an Israeli delegation led by Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz will take official possession...."

 

However, in Israel it is reported that it is a sad day for civil liberty, and he, Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz, is being called upon to help an administratively detained Jewish law school graduate serving a six-month administrative detention order in a prison with Palestinian terrorists to at least be relocated and granted normal prisoner rights(he's been charged with no crime). Mofaz has the authority to overrule the GSS and (at least) relocate Federman to another prison and grant him normal prisoners' rights. Mofaz can be reached as follows: Tel: 03-6976663, Fax: 03-6976218, Israel Prison Commissioner Yaakov Ganot visited imprisoned Noam Federman, who refuses to end his 4-week hunger strike until he is relocated to a prison without Palestinian terrorists (according to www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=52798)..............

 

"Israel Prison Commissioner Yaakov Ganot visited Noam Federman in his prison cell on Wednesday night. Ganot asked the administrative prisoner to end his four-week hunger strike, but the latter refused unless he is moved to a different prison where Palestinian terrorists are *not* being held. He also demands visitation and phone rights "like any other prisoner." Relatives say the strike is taking a physical toll on his health.

 

Federman is serving a six-month administrative detention order in the Ashmoret Prison. Charged with no crime, Federman is being held under a law that allows the IDF and the Minister of Defense to detain a citizen up to six months with no stated reason. The measure was traditionally used against Arab terrorists, but has recently been used against some Jews as well.

 

Women in Green's Ruth Matar wrote this week about the Israeli government's abuse of the administrative-detention tool, a legal instrument left over from British Mandate days. In her article, which can be read at "www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=2958", she cited a few examples:

 

"The latest victim of Administrative Detention abuse is Noam Federman, a 34-year-old man with a wife and seven children, the oldest twelve years old, and the youngest one year old. He has literally been whisked away from his family and imprisoned in solitary confinement since September 22 of this year, without being charged. He has been put in a cell block together with Arab terrorist murderers, who continually shout threats against his life.

 

"To protest his incarceration, Noam Federman has started a hunger strike. He has already lost 20 kilos (44 pounds), because he is only consuming liquids. His wife, Elisheva, has asked that these liquids be either milk or juice in order that he have some nourishment, but her request has been denied. She has further requested that a doctor be allowed to examine him. This request has been denied as well by the Shabak (GSS). No one is allowed to visit him in prison, not even his wife Elisheva. She has seen him only twice since his imprisonment, once during the Sukkot holiday, and one other time when the court ordered that he be allowed to attend his daughter's Bat Mitzvah celebration for two hours. On both these occasions Noam Federman was in handcuffs and leg-irons, and chained to a Shabak agent, so that he could not have a private conversation with anyone, including his wife.

 

"Noam Federman is a law school graduate, but is forbidden to practice law. Some people believe that the reason for Federman's imprisonment is that he has published a booklet which advises people who are arrested by the Shabak, amongst other authorities, of their legal rights, such as being silent when interrogated...

 

"Convicted Arab terrorist murderers are being released in groups of hundreds, allowing them to immediately organize further attacks and to once again kill Jews. Jewish citizens, on the other hand, are put in Administrative Detention for political reasons by a government fearful of popular protest.

 

"But it is one thing to use emergency wartime regulations to fight the country's enemies and preserve its security interests, and quite another to employ them arbitrarily to intimidate political opponents!"

 

Elisheva Federman, in a conversation with Arutz-7 today, and Ruth Matar recommend writing or calling Defense Minister Mofaz, as he has the authority to overrule the GSS and (at least) relocate Federman to another prison and grant him normal prisoners' rights. Mofaz can be reached as follows:

 

Tel: 03-6976663, Fax: 03-6976218.......

Suspected Palistinian collaborators with Isreal have "confessions" tortured out of them, and then they are shot in the street.

Kinda makes a six month detention look a little less barbaric huh?

What about democracy in the Arab countries? Why give them a pass? Why so much criticism of Isreal's democracy and its associated problems?

When Isreal and the U.S.A. are compared with utopia they look pretty bad and pretty oppressive. When they are compared with other contries, especially contries in the Middle East, they start looking pretty good...

I'll tell you.

They hate Jews.