The fascists beat people up, the police arrest them and the judges approve

If the fire of national resilience doesn’t burn too strongly in the bones of Nazareth Magistrate’s Court President Georges Azoulay and he doesn’t show up in court, then nine young men arrested at a protest more than a month ago will be released Monday.

Last Wednesday they weren’t so lucky. Their cases reportedly landed on the desk of Judge Nabeela Dally-Moussa, who recommended that the prosecution provide an alternative to detention. But then Azoulay, who was supposedly on vacation, appeared and took over the case, since national resilience trumps a vacation.

Right-wing Israeli counter-protesters at a pro-peace demonstration in Tel Aviv. A demonstrator held a sign "One People, One Land and One Leader". Hundreds Left and peace activists gathered in Tel Aviv to protest Israel’s attack on Gaza, despite a police decision to revoke the demonstration’s permit, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, July 9, 2014 (Photo: Activestills)

Right-wing Israeli counter-protesters at a pro-peace demonstration in Tel Aviv. A demonstrator held a sign “One People, One Land and One Leader”. Hundreds Left and peace activists gathered in Tel Aviv to protest Israel’s attack on Gaza, despite a police decision to revoke the demonstration’s permit, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, July 9, 2014 (Photo: Activestills)

ler case, Supreme Court Justice Isaac Amit, while ruling on the approval of a leftist demonstration, took pains to record that the decision had been delayed “by a few minutes due to a Color Red [rocket] alert.” Really, you leftists should be ashamed of yourselves. While the adults are busy making war, you’re fooling around. Still, it would be worth explaining to his honor that the left is demonstrating precisely so that rockets shouldn’t fall.

Here’s another gem. It turns out that what really disturbed Rehovot Magistrate’s Court Judge Iryah Heuman Mordechai, who approved the protest last week by the purity-of-the-Jewish-race preservers against the marriage of Morel Malka and Mahmoud Mansour, wasn’t the dark atmosphere of the 1930s that came to life in the courtrooms. It wasn’t even the undermining of a couple’s right to privacy. What bothered the judge was that money would be wasted on securing the Jewish-purity demonstration, money that could have been used to buy Iron Dome missiles.

Could a volunteer explain to her, in a whisper, of course, that the Americans are funding Iron Dome? And in an even lower whisper, could someone explain to her that as long as Israel follows the orders of tycoon Sheldon Adelson, the Americans will continue to fund it?

But compared to other issues, it looks as if the problems of the Arabs and the left are minor. The newspaper for the resilient people, Tishreen Ahronoth, published on the front page of its Friday magazine a photo that resembles the face of the devil. When you look carefully you see that it’s William Schabas, who heads the UN commission investigating whether war crimes have been committed in the Gaza fighting.

Let’s hope they’ll investigate everything thoroughly, including how, at a speed that would shame those guys in the Islamic State, some 2,100 Gazans have been sent to the other side of the universe.

When there are no judges in Jerusalem, there are judges in The Hague.

* The writer Odeh Bisharat, is the former Hadash secretary and now a member of the secretariat of Hadash.

Published in “Haaretz”:

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