The BBC reports: Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld a law banning Palestinians who marry Israelis from gaining Israeli citizenship. The excuse used by the court? “Human rights do not prescribe national suicide,” Judge Asher Grunis wrote in the judgment.
Now that is an amazing confession, isn’t it? What Judge Grunis is saying is the following: (excuse the large print, but this is worthy of being stressed as much as possible)
==>>HUMAN RIGHTS ARE AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT FOR ISRAEL<<==
Well, we all knew that. But it’s very interesting to hear the good judge fess up to this fact. Sure does take away the respectability cloak off “the only democracy in the Middle-East” and show it to be what it really has been all along: the last openly racist regime on the planet and the only form of racism ever based on a religion: Rabbinical (aka. Phariseic) Judaism.
Ok, now its all simple, ain’t it? It’s either gonna be:
“The Jewish State of Israel with Its Eternal and Undivided Capital Jerusalem”
or
Human rights.
One must give; listen to Judge Grunis: they are mutually exclusive.
You can guess which I choose…
The Saker
It is impossible to be fully Israeli unless you are Jewish and so long as there is no such thing as an Israeli nationality that does not distinguish between its people on the basis of race or religion then Israel cannot be called a democracy.
HUMAN RIGHTS ARE AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT FOR ISRAEL
no surprise there, old news in fact.
The Supreme Court Of Israel ruled a decade ago that the fundamental core of humanity – conscience and belief – take a back seat to “security of the state” (turning the Israeli case, based upon Nuremberg principals, against Adolf Eichmann totally on it’s head, I might add).
The “integrity of Israeli society” (?) was also put at risk by conscience and belief (this one makes my head spin).
From:
http://israelblog.com/1041311162/
Say the (Israeli Supreme Court) justices:
“…the recognition of selective conscientious objection might loosen the links that hold us together as a people.” And what holds us together? “The people’s army.”
(Currently President of The Supreme Court) Justice Dorit Beinisch went even further: “the considerations of state security and the integrity of Israeli society must be considered against the arguments of conscience and belief, however sincere.”
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I prefer this quote in the context of our own (US) security apparatus (Homeland Security, GWOT, Patriot Act, etc, etc, etc) but it is well remembered here in this context as well:
“Of all the tyrannies,” Irish novelist C.S. Lewis once noted, “a tyranny sincerely exercised for the ‘good’ of its victims may be the most oppressive.”