In all the annals of miscarriage of justice, Israel-style, this one is right up there. Two years ago, during the Knife Intifada, an Israeli Bedouin attacked the Beersheva bus station. One soldier was killed and ten others wounded. In all the confusion, Israeli vigilante bystanders, who included both police personnel and prison guards, saw an Eritrean … [Read more...]
Israel’s Chief Justice Aware Netanyahu Crony Offered Bribe, Never Reported It
The chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Esther Hayut, heard from a fellow judge, Hila Gerstel, that Bibi crony, Nir Hefetz, had offered her a bribe. Gerstel approached Hayut after the bribery attempt (the former was offered the job of attorney general if she would drop charges against Sara Netanyahu) and neither one ever breathed a word of it to the … [Read more...]
Israeli Supreme Court Gags New Permissive Police Open Fire Regulations
The Israeli Palestinian legal-human rights NGO, Adalah, brought a case against the Israeli police for introducing new secret guidelines about opening fire on Palestinian protesters. Adalah brought a case before a regional court which ordered the police to reveal portions of the guidelines as a matter of public importance. The police appealed the ruling, … [Read more...]
Mossad’s Yossi Cohen Gets Away with Murder…Again
You've probably read the posts I wrote earlier this week about the Mossad assassination of Mohammed al-Zoari in Tunisia. Israeli politicians and journalists have strongly hinted at Mossad's culpability. Tunisian authorities have been more forceful in blaming an Israeli assassination squad for the murder. This is at least the second such murder under Yossi … [Read more...]
