What next: An Oath to the Fourth Reich!? As if the fallout from the death of ONE Palestinian in Dubai and NINE Turkish humanitarians was not enough; now the bastion of "Democracy for Jews" is being torn down in Herculean style by the mini Samsons 'elected' to maintain this Knesset charade.
In true IDF mode - where attacking any neighbour is the panacea for this parasite state - the solution the Zionist plunge in world opinion is for the racist Knesset to promulgate THREE anti-democratic laws! The fascist Netanyahu government, barely clinging together, is presenting a new immigrant law requiring an ideological commitment reminiscent of the oath swore to the original Fuhrer. This now requires an oath to the barely existing "democratic state."
What has sparked this new bout of self-doubt about creeping anti-democratic trends are three laws on the verge of being promulgated in the Knesset, hitherto a bastion of Israel's 'democracy'?
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Once Upon a Time, When Israel Was a Democracy
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Jul 25, 2010 (IPS) - Once upon a time, Israel for all its shortcomings, was regarded by much of the
world as a true and vibrant democracy. Israelis themselves were never shy of
parading their country as "the only democracy in the Middle East."
With Israel's occupation of the Palestinians becoming ever more a fixture
soiling Israeli democracy, for some time the world has grown less and less
sure of the sureness of Israel's democratic character.
Left-wing and liberal-minded Israelis, likewise.
The right-wing Netanyahu government is soon to present the Knesset a new
immigration law. As envisaged, the law would demand of the potential citizen
a substantive new ideological commitment.
Until now every new citizen has been required to "swear loyalty to the State of
Israel." The new law would require them to "swear loyalty to a Jewish and
democratic state."
"The amended wording seems to be an attempt to light a fuse under Israeli
society," said the liberal Haaretz in an editorial. "Like a number of recently
passed measures, this smacks of an attempt to undermine the citizenship of
Israeli Arabs, to bring ties between the State and its Arab citizens to the point
of violent confrontation."
A spokesman for Adalah, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel,
protesting the wording of the loyalty declaration, told IPS, "Such a declaration
is very grave since it would require all non-Jews to identify with Zionism, and
to state their loyalty to both the political ideology of Zionism and to Judaism."
A second bill, introduced at the end of June by 25 lawmakers, has as its aim
the outlawing of any Israeli civil society organisation which "provides
information to foreign entities, or is involved in legal proceedings abroad
against senior Israeli government officials or Israeli army officers, for war
crimes."
Ishai Menuchin, the executive director of the Public Committee against
Torture in Israel, calls this "an assault on democracy".
"If adopted, the bill would legitimise the suppression of information regarding
the commission of such crimes," he points out. "This legislation has serious
implications with respect to international law, the rule of law and Israel's
accountability for international crimes.
"Democracy is far more than majority rule," adds Menuchin. "For Israel to be
truly democratic, civil society organisations are needed to challenge the
government and legislature through the media and courts, and in public
protests."
The third bill is potentially even more damaging to Israeli democracy; it
targets any citizen who wishes to transform dissent against undemocratic
policies into tangible political action.
Passed at a preliminary reading Wednesday, the bill would punish any Israeli
calling for a boycott of any Israeli individual or institution, whether in Israel or
in the occupied territories. The fine would be 30,000 shekels (some 8,000
dollars).
David Landau, formerly editor-in-chief of Haaretz, called forthrightly for just
such a boycott: "I call on parliaments throughout the democratic world, and
inter-parliamentary associations, to boycott Israel's parliament, once the
pride of the Jewish people, until it buries the bill and recovers its democratic
heritage."
Landau wrote: "I want to earn a footnote in Jewish history -- he tried to stand
against the wave of fascism that engulfed the Zionist project. I'm ready to pay
for that."
In the Knesset last week, there was a heated debate over another law, one
that was tailor-made against Arab Israeli legislator Hanan Zo'abi to punish
her for participating in the controversial Turkish-organised peace flotilla that
had been designed to break the siege of Gaza. Zo'abi was stripped of some of
her privileges as a lawmaker.
During the debate, a member of Knesset who is close to the prime minister,
suggested that Israel was a democracy for Jews only: "Don't worry, we'll deal
with your presence in the Knesset later," was the vitriolic outburst launched
by Ofir Akunis against Arab legislator Ahmad Tibi who was strongly
protesting the law against Zo'abi.
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