More apartheid justice

by on February 9, 2010 9

It may very well be that these settler teens were picked up with insufficient evidence. But, under similar circumstances would we see Arab youths freed from custody until investigations were complete? Hardly! Arab youths could just as easily be held in administrative detention with no charges against them.

About Bruce Wolman

Bruce Wolman is a citizen journalist who has lived in Norway and the Washington area.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Settlers/Colonists

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  1. Richard Parker says:
    February 9, 2010 at 9:55 am

    No way; Arab teens would be held in administrative detention, without charge, for months.
    Currently there are at least 340 Palestinian children being held in Israeli Prisons.
    According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted on 20 November 1989 and entered into force on 2 September 1990 (to which Israel is a signatory), and to relevant Israeli law, a child is defined as every human being under the age of 18 years.
    link to addameer.org

  2. potsherd says:
    February 9, 2010 at 10:02 am

    And even before the charges were dropped, they had been released to house arrest.

    How often are Palestinians released to house arrest?

  3. Kathleen says:
    February 9, 2010 at 12:26 pm

    Israel applying their motto “do as we say not as we do”

  4. VR says:
    February 9, 2010 at 1:06 pm

    Of course one could say did we expect anything else? It is a temptation to let these things roll off our back after a while, it is not that easy for the Palestinians. So it is good to note as many instances that we know of, because we can be assured that these things are done thousands of times over. Actually it is not just the judicial system that is skewed with the occupational/colonial project in Israel, every institution is skewed. From the educational, to the municipal, to the religious, to the civil, etc. It brings into question the entire legitimacy of the state.

  5. Richard Parker says:
    February 9, 2010 at 6:53 pm

    Years ago (about 30) I met the Red Cross man in Jordan who had responsibility for prison conditions in Jordan and the West Bank.

    My first question was “Surely Israeli prison conditions are much better than Jordanian ones?” thinking of the Fingernail Factory in Shmeisani, ‘Israeli democracy’ and all that.

    “No”, he said, “Israeli prison conditions are very, very much worse”. And he went into detail. Many Jordanian prisoners are voluntary; young people who had relationships not approved by their families, and who have taken refuge. Most Israeli prisoners (some 10,000) are so-called resisters who are captured on night raids and taken away.

    • potsherd says:
      February 9, 2010 at 7:28 pm

      I think it’s pretty well known that for “security” prisoners, Jordan is a place you don’t want to be. The US has outsouced some of its torture there.

      • Avi says:
        February 9, 2010 at 7:58 pm

        I don’t think the US, Jordan, Israel, Canada, the UK, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Columbia are a place any “security” prisoner would want to be given each country’s track record on torture.

        The aforementioned countries have more in common than they realize.

  6. Rehmat says:
    February 9, 2010 at 10:09 pm

    On December 30, 2009 – Rev. Ted Pike posted an article, titled “Israel’s Increasing Anti-Christianity” on National Prayer Network. The contents of the article relating to the insulting portrayal of prophet Jesus, Holy Mary and rest of the Charistian symbols are true and I am not going to contradict them or apologize for the fact that Jewish Talmud contains the message of prophet Moses (as). Historically, Talmud (written over a century after the disappearance of Jesus) is as much corrupted as the Old Testament and the New Testament. They were all written by interested people, who did not attend sermons given by either Moses (as) or Jesus (as)……

    Religious hatred in Israel
    link to rehmat1.wordpress.com

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