Israel applies its penal code across the West Bank

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.649144

Central Command chief Nitzan Alon signed an order applying Israel's penal code to Palestinians in the West Bank, hours before he left office earlier this week.

An aspect that will not apply to the West Bank is the so-called Shai Dromi amendment enacted in 2008, which exempts a person from criminal responsibility for an “act urgently required to ward off someone who breaks into his home, business or farm.”

This aspect would have let Palestinians ward off settler attacks without bearing criminal responsibility.

So, Palestinians defending themselves against attacks from Israeli settlers/colonists would wind up hauled off by the IDF and put in prison.

One step closer to annexation.

[Jefferson23]

1. The piece process, the true intent continues. K&R

[Jefferson23]

2. The Discriminatory Laws Database

In March 2013, Adalah launched the Discriminatory Laws Database, an online resource that collects more than 50 Israeli laws enacted since 1948 that directly or indirectly discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel in all areas of life, including their rights to political participation, access to land, education, state budget resources, and criminal procedures. Some of the laws also violate the rights of Palestinians living in the 1967 OPT and Palestinian refugees.



The Database – published in Arabic, Hebrew and English – includes texts and descriptions of active laws and selections of the most dangerous pending bills. Each of the laws in the database includes Adalah documents and publications such as position papers, legal letters, court decisions (if applicable), press releases, , and other analyses.

Background

Israeli governments regularly enact legislation which excludes, ignores, and discriminates against the Palestinian Arab minority. Since the establishment of the state, Israel has relied upon these laws to ground their discriminatory treatment of Arab citizens and allow the unequal status and unequal treatment of Jewish and Arab citizens to persist.

In February 2009, elections for the 18th Knesset brought to power the most right‐wing government coalition in the history of Israel. The 19th Knesset, elected in January 2013, continued this right-wing trend. Both governments were led by Benjamin Netanyahu, of the Likud party, with strong support from the far-right wing parties Yisrael Beitenu, led by Avigdor Lieberman, and HaBayit HaYehudi, led by Naftali Bennet. The Members of Knesset (MKs) in both of these governments immediately introduced a flood of discriminatory legislation.

These new laws and bills seek, inter alia, to dispossess and exclude Arab citizens from the land; turn their citizenship from a right into a conditional privilege; undermine the ability of Arab citizens of Israel and their parliamentary representatives to participate in the political life of the country; criminalize political expression or acts that question the Jewish or Zionist nature of the state; and privilege Jewish citizens in the allocation of state resources.

http://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/7771

[guillaumeb]

3. important to remember that

second class citizenship,
restrictive land use policies,
the creation of ethnically segregated enclaves, all those things that define apartheid states,

do NOT constitute apartheid when talking about Israel.

[oberliner]

4. None of those things exist in Israel

All Israeli citizens enjoy the same rights regardless of religion or ethnicity.

There are no "ethnically segregated enclaves".

[guillaumeb]

5. perhaps in an alternate universe that is correct

but in this universe the facts do not support your statement

[geek tragedy]

6. So the Jewish National Fund doesn't discriminate between Jews and Arabs?

There's an explicitly racist law on the books regarding family reunification.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_and_Entry_into_Israel_Law

Not to mention the fact that not only do a majority of non-Arab Israelis exhibit explicit racism against Arabs, but also that they want racism to be codified in Israeli law.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/survey-most-israeli-jews-wouldn-t-give-palestinians-vote-if-west-bank-was-annexed.premium-1.471644

The majority of the Jewish public, 59 percent, wants preference for Jews over Arabs in admission to jobs in government ministries. Almost half the Jews, 49 percent, want the state to treat Jewish citizens better than Arab ones; 42 percent don't want to live in the same building with Arabs and 42 percent don't want their children in the same class with Arab children.

A third of the Jewish public wants a law barring Israeli Arabs from voting for the Knesset and a large majority of 69 percent objects to giving 2.5 million Palestinians the right to vote if Israel annexes the West Bank.

A sweeping 74 percent majority is in favor of separate roads for Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank. A quarter - 24 percent - believe separate roads are "a good situation" and 50 percent believe they are "a necessary situation."

Almost half - 47 percent - want part of Israel's Arab population to be transferred to the Palestinian Authority and 36 percent support transferring some of the Arab towns from Israel to the PA, in exchange for keeping some of the West Bank settlements.

Although the territories have not been annexed, most of the Jewish public (58 percent ) already believes Israel practices apartheid against Arabs. Only 31 percent think such a system is not in force here. Over a third (38 percent ) of the Jewish public wants Israel to annex the territories with settlements on them, while 48 percent object.

And people wonder why the apartheid-lite parties are a solid majority in the Knesset.

[Lithos]

7. Can you edit the title to reflect the article's title?

Please save editorializing for the body of the post.

Lithos

[geek tragedy]

8. done, sorry nt

[Lithos]

9. Thank you!