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JIWON: I always remember what Dorit Beinsich said about my computer work. THEREFORE, I do my best to collect ALL the possible articles based on the fact;
Hello, Is Dorit Beinisch talking about ME? Public Slander? (Regarding Ruth Gavison, Jun 23 – Jul 21, 2008)
(…) “Public slander… to raise incitement against them… quite a few tendentious attempts… Don’t listen to these claims. They are based on misinformation and deception. The reality is very far from what is described.” (…)
Sa’ar-bill: Nobel laureate Aumann applies game theory to judge selection (Jun 17, 2008) (Article No. 73)
(…) During the meeting Aumann had much less to say about game theory than he did about what was wrong with the Supreme Court and the committee that chooses it. (…) He added that he was “shocked” to hear that Ben-Sasson had asked Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch for her opinion of the bill. “This contradicts the separation of the branches of government,” he said in his introductory remarks. He also blamed the Supreme Court for its efforts to curb its power. “The court brought the politicization upon itself because it deals with matters pertaining to SOCIAL VALUES, POLITICS and SECURITY,” he charged. There should also be no judges or lawyers on the committee that choose the justices of the Supreme Court in the first place, he added later, since the court deals with these three areas. (…)
Please check
Beinisch Politics has nothing to do with LAW
Beinisch: Media to blame for public’s loss of faith in courts (From Jul 21, 2008 to Present).
Dorit Beinisch toward/during/after Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination (From Aug, 1993 to Present)
A Purge at Haaretz (Is Haaretz going to become another Bibi-ton? How long will it take? From Aug, 2006 to Present)
Supreme Court after Olmert (Beinisch should get rid of Friedmann as quickly as possible, From Sep 3, 2008 to Present)
Is “Friedmannism” Good for Israel? (From Aug 13, 2007 to Present)
Barak, Beinisch, Friedmann & Citizenship Law (From Jul 31. 2003 to Present)
Arab-Jewish Clash (Acre-Riots): 8 years after the October Riots, NOTHING has been done to implement the recommendations of the OR-COMMISSION in regard to Israel’s Arabs (From Oct 10, 2008 to Present)
Supreme Court & Palestinians: (It stinks… but I’m still not ready for the collection of articles on these issues.) Last updated on Nov 20, 2008
Settlers are above LAW (From Jul 25, 2008 to Present)
Collection of other articles, which belong to the Settlement Issue also appear here.
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NOVEMBER 13, 2008
Supreme Court Inside/Outside Israel
Switzerland: Israel breaking int’l law by razing Palestinian homes Nov 13, 2008 20:17 | Updated Nov 13, 2008 20:19 / By Jerusalem Post, ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA
Switzerland accused Israel on Thursday of wantonly destroying Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem and near Ramallah in violation of the Geneva Conventions’ rules on military occupation.
The Swiss Foreign Ministry demanded that Israel immediately halt the demolitions, which Israel has said are aimed at removing illegally constructed shacks.
An Israeli Embassy spokeswoman in the Swiss capital of Bern said the decision to remove the structures was “not an arbitrary decision,” but was sanctioned by law. “This demolition of houses was done under a court order,” embassy spokeswoman Shlomit Sufa said Thursday.
NOVEMBER 13, 2008 (18:40)
Supreme Court Inside Israel
(My message to my READERS.)
JIWON:
What the hell… I was looking for one lost article about Dorit Beinisch. Well… it was about this morning’s battle between Olmert and Beinisch…
Guess what? All the bloggers questioned about her real intention. (This blogger is not the only one. I am just speechless. What kind of dirty fame has this female jurist enjoyed?) Beinisch sounds fantastic and PM Olmert sounds like a SOB. This is why it sounds more weird and stinks more. I believe the government has absolutely no money. But I don’t think this is a sole reason. Hamas is sending more and more rocket and the result is getting into more and more headache. If the government loses this battle to Supreme Court, sooner or later it wouldn’t be able to handle too many, but all the same legal cases.
Blog: Fwd: how convenient for Beinisch Mar 26, 2008 / By Israel Truth Times
Aryeh sent this very insightful comment on the news:
What incredible, self serving nonsense.
Beinisch’s girlfriend, all on her very own, decides to jeopardize her very useful and privileged position as the journalistic insider to the Grand Master of Israel’s Supreme Cult by reveling private information. The fact that Beinisch is under continuos pressure to reduce the powers and privileges of the Supreme Cult and is increasingly being seen as ungenerous in her public stance of course have nothing to do with this revelation.
We are presented with a kinder, more concerning Beinisch. Gone is the arrogant, dictatorial manipulator. Gone is the conspirator to murder, treason and subversion of justice. We are left only with the motherly concern of a woman torn by the need to protect the people of Sderot.
Journalist Ilana Dayan: Beinisch Explains Sderot Decision 26 March 08 11:30 / By Arutz Sheva
(IsraelNN.com) Journalist Ilana Dayan revealed some of the motives behind Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch’s decision to force the government to provide protection for buildings in Sderot in a speech given Wednesday and quoted by Nfc. According to Dayan, Beinisch worried that if she did not rule against the government, authorities would refuse to protect the town, and residents would have nowhere else to turn. “There’s nothing after me,” Beinisch reportedly said, meaning that residents would have had no possibility of appeal.
According to Dayan, Beinisch said, “I thought about what would happen if there would be no protection. Would I send my daughters there?” Dayan said her information was taken from a private conversation with Beinisch. Dayan allowed herself to reveal the information after determining that it could not harm Beinisch for others to know her reasoning, Dayan said.
Blog: Problematic Fortifications in Kassam-Ridden Towns Even Has High Court Alarmed Feb 8, 2007 / By Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
FULL TEXT: Fortifications in Qassam-ridden towns problematic, High Court says Feb 8, 2007 / By Ynetnews, Israel
Talkbacks for this article 4
1. should have thought of that before giving them a state / (02.08.07)
2. Are children more important than adults? – The headlines ‘teenager killed or wounded’ or “baby killed’ etc grab headlines but they are purely worn out cliches attempting to tug at outmoded emotional strings. Is a child more important than an adult ? In almost conceivable case – not ! Adults can bring more children. Adults have been taught and probably have more to offer. I could go on and will probably get many posts saying ‘but they’re young lives were shortened’ etc. The truth is that it would be logically impossible to show that a child’s life is more important than an adults so let’s start getting real ! / redmike , tel aviv – Israel (02.08.07)
3. Supreme Court Justice or Prime Minister? – I agree with the Head of the Supreme Court Justice concerns about schools in sedorot. But it is totally out of her jurisdiction. / Michael (02.08.07)
4. HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN GAZA – How about the Israeli government tackles the root of the problem? Instead of trying to further the safety of already entirely safe Israeli kids who live comfortably in no fear whatsoever of their lives, they could WAKE UP and admit the fact that there is a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY NEIGHBOURING THEM. Children in Gaza live in the biggest open-air prison on earth and are denied clean drinking water, sewerage systems, basic healthcare..BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS.And Israel is wondering why there is an uprising? These people our the future and inequality is being drummed into their lives. / Eyesopen, under occupation (02.08.07)
Blog: Boy seriously wounded in Sderot Kassam attack; Schools still unprotected Nov 15, 2006 / By Israel Matzav
(…) Ironically, Supreme Court Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch ordered the State to show cause today why it should not be required to reinforce kindergarten classrooms in Sderot. Yes, you guessed it. After talking about it all summer, it still hasn’t been done. (…)
FULL TEXT: Beinisch slams lack of school safety Nov 15, 2006 / By Jerusalem Post
(…) Originally, the government allocated NIS 210 million to beef up the Gaza periphery (an area defined as including all the towns and villages within a seven-kilometer radius of the Gaza Strip.) Some of that sum was earmarked to reinforce all of the kindergartens. On July 2, 2006, the government allocated an additional NIS 75 million to reinforce 16 elementary and eight secondary schools in the same area. (…)
The state’s representative, Attorney Ra’anan Giladi, argued that experts in the security field had determined that it was sufficient to give the students 15 seconds to reach the protected areas from their classrooms because the warning siren sounded 20 seconds before the terrorist rockets struck the town. As for those instances when there was no warning period at all, he added, the children were still in no greater danger than they were on their way to and from school or in their unreinforced homes.
The state added that a project for reinforcing 24 schools according to the plan determined by the government would usually take six to nine months. Working day and night, Sabbaths and holiday, the contractors had completed the 16 primary schools by September 3 and four of the eight secondary schools by October 16.
However, the petitioners are demanding that the state finish reinforcing every roof of every educational facility immediately. Furthermore, many of the kindergartens are still not reinforced despite the NIS 210 million budget, most of which had already been allocated to the Defense Ministry before the government decided to add another NIS 75 million for the schools. Of 31 kindergartens in Sderot, only 7 have been reinforced so far, Kattar told The Post.
Beinisch urged the state representatives to present a timetable for completing the work and reminded them that “the schools are your responsibility.”
Gov’t might fund more safety rooms in Gaza periphery as part of public works program Nov 17, 2008 / By Jerusalem Post
Cabinet rejects extra Gaza belt funding Nov 12, 2008 11:46 | Updated Nov 13, 2008 0:35 / By Jerusalem Post,
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1. All of a sudden Olmert has become a man? This should have happened sooner. / Alexa – Israel (11/12/2008 12:27)
2-7. Olmert is SOB for whatsoever reason.
8. Cabinet is not stupid – For once, let logic prevail over politics – There is a limited Israeli budget. Statistics about rocket attacks show that no one has ever been seriously injured by a kassam while in a house or building. The added feeling of security is not worth tax payers’ additional half a billion shekels! The money could be used to prevent the death of hundreds in a possible earthquake in the north or other emergency preparation. / Noe – Israel (11/12/2008 18:00)
9. let me be naive – Aren’t those qassams fitted with a simple “detonate@hit” activator? Shouldn’t a simple second rooftop about half a meter above the original one reduce the damage of the impact significantly? Plastic might do the trick… / JDR – Germany (11/12/2008 20:34)
In an alleged response to a query from the High Court of Justice, the security cabinet decided on Wednesday to reject a Defense Ministry proposal to extend the range of the program for building reinforced security rooms in the Gaza periphery from 4.5 kilometers to 4.7 km.
But infuriated residents of communities within the 4.5-km. zone charged that the cabinet had discussed the wrong issue. The ministers should have been considering the residents’ demand to allocate NIS 500 million to complete construction of security rooms for all 8,000 families within the official 4.5-km. danger zone. So far, the government has allocated NIS 327m. for the first phase of the program, enough for only 3,000 housing units in the zone.
“Instead of dealing with the real problem, the committee made this stupid decision,” charged Kadima MK Shai Hermesh, who lives in Kibbutz Kfar Aza and is one of the petitioners.
It certainly looked as though there was a foul-up on the part of the government. According to the cabinet decision, “the Ministerial Committee on National Security Affairs met in the wake of a petition to the High Court of Justice. It discussed the possibility of expanding the structural reinforcement plan for communities adjacent to the Gaza Strip beyond the 4.5-km. range to a 4.7-km. range, at an additional overall cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.”
But the petition the cabinet was referring to had nothing to do with expanding the security zone. It was the one filed by Hermesh and 10 others from 11 kibbutzim that were not included in phases one and two of the government’s construction plan.
In August, Hermesh and his neighbors petitioned the court, demanding that the government carry out all three building phases at once because of drastic changes in the threat the residents of the Gaza periphery faced.
They maintained that in May, three months after the government approved the three-phase plan, Palestinian terrorists had begun to use 120 mm. mortars, which were much more dangerous than the Kassam rockets they had been mainly using until then. Two people were killed during that month in kibbutzim that were not budgeted for reinforced safety rooms.
The petitioners received a letter from Defense Minister Ehud Barak attesting that the threat to the kibbutzim had increased in the months after the government’s decision. However, Prime Minister’s Office director-general Ra’anan Dinur rejected the claim and said he saw no reason to allocate more money to the project.
When the matter came before the High Court, the justices demanded that the cabinet make up its mind as to whether the threat had increased or not and whether, therefore, it ought to allocate additional money to the program.
Hermesh told The Jerusalem Post he had expected the security cabinet to decide on this question at its Wednesday meeting. Instead, it allegedly discussed a matter that had nothing to do with the petition.
The High Court hearing will resume after the state informs the court of the decision it made at the meeting – assuming that the court is satisfied with it.
According to the Defense Ministry, the security cabinet debate was indeed only on the issue of expanding the security zone by .2 km. However, according to the Prime Minister’s Office, both questions – the security perimeter expansion and the issue of spending the NIS 500m. to fortify the housing units already within the zone – were debated and rejected.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Finance Minister Ronnie Bar-On opposed the extra funding. Olmert said during the meeting that “the High Court of Justice cannot dictate to the government where to fortify homes and at what pace.”
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Tzahi Hanegbi criticized the decision, telling Army Radio that “there are needs that don’t disappear during the calm.” Hanegbi said he did not understand the cabinet’s decision, as it was inevitable that the calm would be followed by more violence.
New Sderot Mayor David Buskila blasted the decision as well.
“It greatly distresses me that the members of the cabinet have chosen economic considerations instead of the recommendations of the security establishment,” he said. “It is hard to understand how they reached their decision, at a time when we are witnessing increasing proof of Hamas arming itself with rockets and long-range missiles.”
Buskila went on to say that the Wednesday incident in which IDF soldiers gunned down four terrorists who were planning to plant a bomb near the Gaza fence was “the clearest proof of the foolishness of this decision.”
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NOVEMBER 8, 2008
Supreme Court Inside Israel
JIWON: I believe that any Palestinian issue inside Israel should be handled case by case. My problem is HOW LONG and HOW MUCH those poor folks should waste until Supreme Court decides something for-or-against them. Still, I am NOT ready to start another collection for this issue.
High Court gives IDF 90 days to test travel ban changes (Oct 29, 2008): The High Court of Justice agreed on to give the state 90 days to test out changes in a military regulation regarding Palestinians prohibited from traveling abroad because the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) regards them as security threats. The regulation was originally introduced in January in response to a petition filed two years ago by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Moked – Defense of the Individual.
Shin Bet, Civil Rights Group Clash on Travel Ban (Oct 29, 2008): (…) The case returns to the High Court in 90 days.
Court frowns on villagers’ demand that barrier be moved to Green Line (Nov 4, 2008): Petitioners claim 71% of land belonging to Palestinian villagers still on “Israeli” side of barrier. (…) Beinisch made clear that she accepted the state’s position on its security needs. She pressed the villagers to explain what was wrong with the system of gates that allowed villagers with permits from the Civil Administration to cross the barrier and cultivate their farmland on the “Israeli” side.
The story will be continued in
Supreme Court & Palestinians: (It stinks… but I’m still not ready for the collection of articles on these issues.)
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Happenings on the same day, OCTOBER 28-29, 2008
Supreme Court Inside Israel
Please check Supreme Court after Olmert (Beinisch should get rid of Friedmann as quickly as possible, From Sep 3, 2008 to Present) (Please click this to click the exact title again.)
Or my Knesset mail, When is the best time to join FACEBOOK? (Regarding my Legal Business with Yeheskell Beinisch, From Aug 6, 2008 to Present)
Witness in Hirchson case: I personally gave Olmert a fat envelope Ha’aretz, Israel – Oct 28, 2008
High Court President: Wait Till Gov’t Change to Select Judges Oct 28, 2008 / By Arutz Sheva
Court approves right-wing march through the heart of one of Israel’s largest Arab cities Oct 29, 2008 / By Haaretz
Despite court approval, police can still cancel Marzel march Oct 30, 2008 / Jerusalem Post: “Police has the duty to protect lives. If Marzel and his supporters arrive in Umm el-Fahm without friction, then the march will proceed.”
Supreme Court approves site for Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance on Muslim cemetery Oct 29, 2008 / By Jerusalem Post
Wiesenthal Center gets green light to build museum on ancient Muslim cemetery: $250 million Museum of Tolerance to be built in Jerusalem after two years of legal battles.
Arabs rally against construction of Jerusalem museum on Muslim cemetery Nov 6, 2008 / By Haaretz
Wiesenthal dean rejects museum protests as extremist agitation Nov 7, 2008 / By Jerusalem Post
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OCTOBER 27 – NOVEMBER 7, 2008
Supreme Court Inside Israel
(on OCTOBER 27 and revised on NOVEMBER 8, 2008)
JIWON: What the heck! While healing my sore eyes during the weekend, I was just expecting to read Election-related articles, including Early elections to cost economy NIS 2b, and planned to finish
1. updating Kippah in my Knesset-blog.
2. writing In sum, I will travel ALL over the world and plead Palestinian Right to Targeted Killing of DORIT BEINISCH and Dear Palestinians, (Concerning Barenboim’s Divan-Project,)
I woke up only to dedicate HALF of my entire Monday to organize ANOTHER collection,
When ILLEGAL outposts are evacuated… Whose fault is it? Police/IDF or Settlers? Or Court?, which should dwell in this collection,
Settlers are above LAW (From Jul 25, 2008 to Present). AS USUAL, THE STORY ENDS UP WITH
Supreme Court Inside/Outside Israel (From Jul 25, 2008 to Present)!!! WHAT A COMICAL COUNTRY IT IS…
Please check Kippah-I
From When ILLEGAL outposts are evacuated… Whose fault is it? Police/IDF or Settlers? Or Court? (From Oct 27, 2008 to Present) (Please click this to click the exact title again)
2. At the weekly Cabinet meeting today (Sunday), 26.10.08: (Communicated by the Cabinet Secretariat)
(…) Prime Minister Olmert said: “I understand that last night, there was an operation by security forces to evacuate outposts or in the face of activities that were not approved by the authorized state bodies. Afterwards, during the morning, there were radio interviews which included very extreme remarks by residents of Judea and Samaria, including calls to perpetrate attacks against people who did their duty pursuant to directives from the security services and the security establishment. I have instructed Justice Minister Prof. Daniel Friedmann and Public Security Minister Avi Dicter to take immediate action and use all necessary measures against those elements that spoke in this manner. Whoever spoke on radio may certainly be identified. Whoever speaks out against IDF soldiers belongs in jail and in judicial proceedings. We will show no tolerance towards such expressions and actions. We are sick of this verbal violence, which either leads to, or affects, other violence. We know this from the past. In no way will I allow this to continue in the future and we will see to it that it stops forthwith. I will hear reports, today.” Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that such remarks are unacceptable and called for quick action to punish those responsible. He emphasized that there was an embarrassing forgiveness towards those same people in the courts and added that the law-enforcement authorities cannot abide the fact that this undermines the authority of the state over its citizens. The Defense Minister said that he would, this week, in conjunction with the Public Security Ministry and the Israel Police, hold a discussion on the issue of enforcing the law in Judea and Samaria, in order to coordinate measures to exhaust the legal process.”
1. Mazuz calls for incitement probe against settler activists in response to West Bank rioting Last update – 00:37 27/10/2008 / By Haaretz
(…) Israel has repeatedly pledged to the United States that it would evacuate these outposts to meet the conditions of the first stage of the diplomatic road map leading to a final-status agreement with the Palestinians. Earlier this year, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and settler leaders reached an agreement to dismantle some 26 outposts built on private Palestinian land after March 2001.
JIWON: While reading articles, please check From the Settlers’ Viewpoint. Whose fault is it? Police/IDF or Settlers? Or Court? Those Settlers now have nothing to lose in this cold winter. They will be lost AGAIN between the District and High court… for YEARs AGAIN. What do you expect from them? Phoenix-Bibi and ALL his junior Phoenix will never give up their big-mouth.
Demolition of Federman Farm from Oct 26 to Nov 6, 2008
13. NOVEMBER 6, 2008: COURT Releases Federman and Clashes on Farm Continue. So… is this how NOT ONE settlement outpost has been taken down since 2006? Meanwhile, ANOTHER INCIDENT happens… so HOW MUCH MONEY the settlers will lose UNTIL they are forcibly evicted? FUNNY… it is none but DORIT BEINISCH, who echoes JM FRIEDMANN and says that it is not a job of Supreme Court. “The court has made it clear that the dispute over ownership must be resolved in district court.” Then, how many YEARs the settlers should be lost between District and High Court?
12. Settlers: We hope IDF soldiers die, become like Gilad Shailt (Oct 27, 2008)
11. Settlers vandalize Muslim graves after IDF razes outpost (Oct 27, 2008)
10. Settlers damaged over 80 Palestinian vehicles after IDF razes outpost (Oct 27, 2008)
9. Two police cars were damaged during the altercations (Oct 27, 2008)
8. PeaceNow/IDF: According to LAW, they have NO rights (Oct 27, 2008)
7. Kiryat Arba municipality made an official decision to rebuild… (Hundreds Rebuilding Destroyed Kiryat Arba Farm) (Oct 27, 2008)
6. Settlers vow LAWSUITS against IDF-captains (PA Deploys, Israeli Govt Force Destroys Jewish Home in Hevron) (Oct 27, 2008)
5. Settlers: Security forces carried out the evacuation without a preliminary order (Oct 27, 2008)
4. IDF: It had all the necessary authorization. There were previous instances in which we gave advanced warning, and it was thwarted because of some organizing. The demolition was carried out in accordance with the appropriate permitss. (Oct 27, 2008)
3. Settlers rebuild evacuated outpost (Oct 27, 2008)
2. DM Barak: There was an embarrassing forgiveness towards those same people in the courts (Oct 27, 2008)
1. We have had right of possession on this land for 10 years. No Arab has demanded it. We launched legal proceedings and paid a lot of money (Oct 27, 2008): “We have had right of possession on this land for 10 years. No Arab has demanded it. We launched legal proceedings and paid a lot of money. How can they do this without any warning? I hope God gives us the strength to return. We have no property now. We can build a tent there. We have nothing to lose,” she said.
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OCTOBER 12, 2008
Supreme Court Inside Israel
From Arab-Jewish Clash (Acre-Riots): 8 years after the October Riots, NOTHING has been done to implement the recommendations of the OR-COMMISSION in regard to Israel’s Arabs (From Oct 10, 2008 to Present) (Click this to click the exact title again, please)
JIWON: Time to read OLD articles AGAIN. How come Beinisch’s AG Mazuz appears again and again in ALL the weird political articles, starting from Katsav-affair? Who is he working for? Dorit Beinisch or Benjamin Netanyahu or Simply-Israel? To be exact… how many ‘POLITICAL’ things have happened since Dorit Beinisch’s appointment as President of Israeli Supreme Court?
Talkbacks: Beinisch, Friedmann, Sex-Scandal, Corruption (Kangaroo Court from Sep 12, 2003)
Article No. 24: Critical mass (Feb 10, 2007) (…) Friedmann is not the first law professor to uphold a conservative perception of the law whereby the Supreme Court should return to its classical role of resolving disputes between sides and stop its excessive intervention in decisions that are the province of other authorities. (…) “Israel is on its way to a police state,” he declared. “Members of the government and members of the Knesset are subordinated in effect to the attorney general, who acts under the protection of the courts. This is the anti-democratic revolution that is taking place under the banner of the law.”
Meanwhile, start another collection. Please check
Police can’t fight settler violence. (Settlers clash with IDF, Palestinians, From Jul 25, 2008 to Present) (Click this to click the exact title again, please.)
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SEPTEMBER 16-29, 2008
Supreme Court Inside/Outside Israel
Supreme Court demands response from army, police on settler violence (Sep 24, 2008).: (…) Meltzer is one of a panel of three justices, including Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch and Esther Hayut, who are hearing petition filed by Rabbis for Human Rights and 12 farmers from Yatta village in the Hebron hills. They have accused settlers from Sussiya and the illegal outpost of Mitzpeh Ya’ir of violating a military order declaring a 40-dunam area of private land belonging to the Palestinian farmers off limits. (…) The state was given 40 days to submit the affidavits.
Court to IDF: Reexamine Ni’lin charges (Sep 29, 2008).
JIWON: After my mailing on September 20, When is the best time to join FACEBOOK? (Regarding my Legal Business with Yeheskell Beinisch), Jerusalem Post reported this article and another one on Sep 29. Therefore, I had to search more, and found something more.
Absentee Property Law: Settlers, IDF & State quietly expropriate land (West Bank settlement construction nearly doubled this year, From Aug, 1993 to Present) (Please click this to click the exact title.)
JIWON: JUST IN CASE… this is also
from Settlers are above LAW (From Jul 25, 2008 to Present) (Please click this to click the exact title.)
7. Olmert: ‘Jewish underground’ behind attack on leftist prof. September 27, 2008 / By Haaretz: (…) In the 1980s, a Jewish underground group, acting after six Jewish seminary students were killed in a Palestinian attack, carried out bombings that maimed several West Bank mayors and a shooting in an Islamic college that killed three students. Members of the group were jailed but the sentences were later commuted by then-President Chaim Herzog.
6. Dichter: Prof attack takes us back to days of Rabin assassination By Haaretz: (…) Itamar Ben-Gvir, an activist with a fringe settler group calling itself the National Jewish Front, said Sternhell was an irrelevant figure and that he did not believe settlers were behind the attack. “I don’t denounce this incident, but say categorically that we are not involved,” Ben-Gvir said.
5. Rise in settler violence feared September 14, 2008 / By Jerusalem Post
4. IDF, police play blame game over settler riot September 14, 2008 / By Jerusalem Post
3. Army: Settlers have crossed red line September 11, 2008 / By Jerusalem Post: (…) Senior IDF officers on Thursday lambasted the legal system’s inability to effectively crack down on radical West Bank settlers after a group of young far-right activists went on a rampage that culminated in an attack on an IDF position near Ramallah.
2. Behind closed doors, police admit ‘turning a blind eye’ to settler violence August 15, 2008 / By Haatez, Uri Blau
1. No settlers arrested yet September 16, 2008 / By Haaretz: (…) In a meeting of Labor Party ministers earlier yesterday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said, “The defense establishment will act decisively to enforce law and order in the West Bank, but we need the cooperation of the police and the legal system.” Meanwhile, a rabbinical committee praised the settlers’ “heroism” and “courage” following the attacks. The committee is composed of rabbis affiliated with the religious Zionist movement from a number of settlements in the West Bank and within Israel proper, alongside those linked to the Hasidic movement Chabad.
The rabbis released a statement saying the settlers’ reaction to the boy’s stabbing was in accordance with halakha (Jewish law).
JIWON: JUST IN CASE… this is also
from Supreme Court after Olmert (Beinisch should get rid of Friedmann as quickly as possible)
4. Possible Mofaz coalition taking shape (Sep 3, 2008).: (…) Labor would likely abandon the Education Ministry as a way to dismiss Education Minister Yuli Tamir, an ally of deposed Labor Party chairman Amir Peretz. Instead, Labor would receive the Justice Ministry from Kadima, replacing controversial minister Daniel Friedman with a Labor appointee. (…)
3. Labor lays out demands for joining Livni coalition (Sep 23, 2008).: The Labor Party will demand that all Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann’s reforms be scrapped as a condition for staying in a Tzipi Livni government, and any change in the court system would be done by consent, senior Labor sources say. But if Livni agrees there will be no need to replace Friedmann “because he will resign on his own accord,” a source said.
2. Livni, Barak aides: ‘Good progress’ in coalition talks (Sep 24, 2008).: (…) Barak repeated Labor’s demand that the Supreme Court be granted autonomy as a condition for the party’s participation in the government.
1. Ayalon backs joining Livni government (Sep 25, 2008).: (…) sources close to Barak said the Defense Minister was demanding full partnership in the government as well as veto power on several issues, such as Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann’s court reforms and SECURITY-RELATED ISSUES.
JIWON: JUST IN CASE… this is also
from Professor Sternhell: Bomb at my home shows settler violence spilling over Green Line (RED FLAG for the RIGHT) (Collection on September 25, 2008)
8. To the honorable Defense Minister, Ehud Barak: ‘No need to be shocked; just do your job.’ By Ynetnews / Michael Mankin (Breaking the Silence activist): I was surprised to hear your response (…) The incident that took place is under your direct responsibility; and it is most certainly not a unique or new act. As defense minister, you’re not supposed to be surprised. The organization I’m active in, Breaking the Silence, has been holding tours in Hebron for years, and we have been harassed by settlers for a long time now. Hebron, as you know, is the lab where far rightists test the limits of the Israeli government’s tolerance. The Jewish terrorism originating in the town, terror that is directed mostly at Palestinians, is known to all. We too, Israelis calling for the law to be enforced, have suffered the abuse of this group. (…) The police do not arrest the rioters. It is easier for them to remove us from town. (…) You, Mr. Barak, are not providing them with those tools. Hebron is not the only focal point, as you know. (…) Violence is no longer directed only at Palestinians, or even leftists, but rather, also at soldiers and police officers. (…) Yet you’ve let those things happen from your first day on the job. Instead of making declarations, you should face the public and say: “On this front, I failed.” Yet more importantly, you must act. After all, any Israeli who has been following the events of the recent year knows that the deterioration has merely started. The explosive device directed at Professor Sternhell is not a new incident; it’s merely closer to your home. No need to be shocked; just do your job.
7. Bibi’s GLICK, JP’s Deputy Managing Editor, marries Jerusalem attorney Ephraim Katzir Jun 21, 2007 / By Jerusalem Post: The couple were introduced by Nadia Matar. Matar, the guiding light of Women in Green, occasionally gets entangled with the LAW (…) When Matar’s activists are detained by the police, they usually call Honenu, a LEGAL aid society that helps right wing detainees. On one particular occasion following her arrest, Matar contacted Honenu and it sent Katzir, who quickly arranged her release. Impressed, Matar, who has never hesitated to come forward, asked about his marital status and told him that she had the perfect woman for him. The rest, as they say, is history. (…)
6. Bibi’s GLICK: I Criticize Everything Jewish Leftists Do, except Dorit Beinisch and her Supreme Court.. WHY? (From April 5, 2002 to Present)
5. Police: ‘Jewish underground may be emerging’ By Jerusalem Post
4. Message on rightist website: We’ll target senior leftist figure (Police looking into messages on rightist forum) By Ynetnews
3. Everyone is a target: Sternhell attack shows that far right may target anyone who holds different views (Shin Bet/Police didn’t know.) By Ynetnews
2. Red flag for the right By Haaretz / Nadav Shragai
1. IDF West Bank Commander: Rightist Violence encouraged by Settler Leadership, Rabbis and Public October 2, 2008 / By Haaretz, Amos Harel
JIWON: JUST IN CASE… this is also
from Talkbacks: Beinisch, Friedmann, Sex-Scandal, Corruption (Kangaroo Court from Sep 12, 2003)
Sa’ar-bill: Nobel laureate Aumann applies game theory to judge selection (Jun 17, 2008) (Article No. 73)
(…) During the meeting Aumann had much less to say about game theory than he did about what was wrong with the Supreme Court and the committee that chooses it. (…) He added that he was “shocked” to hear that Ben-Sasson had asked Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch for her opinion of the bill. “This contradicts the separation of the branches of government,” he said in his introductory remarks. He also blamed the Supreme Court for its efforts to curb its power. “The court brought the politicization upon itself because it deals with matters pertaining to SOCIAL VALUES, POLITICS and SECURITY,” he charged. There should also be no judges or lawyers on the committee that choose the justices of the Supreme Court in the first place, he added later, since the court deals with these three areas. (…)
Sa’ar-bill: Beinisch gives quiet support to upping judicial appt. majority (Jun 19, 2008). (Article No. 74)
(…) Robert (Yisrael) Aumann, a Nobel Prize laureate in economics, raised a different issue, arguing that lawyers and judges should not sit on the JAC at all. Currently, the JAC’s nine members include three Supreme Court justices and two Bar Association representatives, along with two ministers and two Knesset members. “It’s a scandal that lawyers are represented on the committee, when they must appear before the judges [they appoint],” he said. “This is institutional corruption.” (…)
JIWON: THEREFORE, NO DEATH THREAT TO EITHER DM BARAK OR DORIT BEINISCH…
ONLY soon-to-be-EX-PM OLMERT and OTHERs(?) RECEIVED a DEATH THREAT… POOR JEWS.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Supreme Court Inside Israel
Beinisch’s Jerusalem Festival Inside Israel
Daniel Barenboim gets protection after threats in Jerusalem (Sep 10, 2008). By Reuters AlertNet, UK
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
Supreme Court Outside Israel
Beinisch’s Jerusalem Festival Outside Israel
‘Elena Bashkirova, Guy Braunstein, and Jerusalem Quartet’ at Berlin’s 22nd Jewish Cultural Festival in the Synagogue Rykestrasse (Sep 16, 2008).:
Das International Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival wurde 1998 von Elena Bashkirova gegründet. Bashkirova, Tochter des berühmten Pianisten Dimitrij Bashkirov und selbst international renommierte Pianistin, ist leidenschaftliche Kammermusikerin und Partnerin so prominenter Kollegen wie Gidon Kremer. Unter ihrer künstlerischen Leitung hat sich das jährlich im September stattfindende Festival schnell als hochkarätiges Podium etabliert und zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil des kulturellen Lebens in Israel entwickelt.
Mit dem Ensemble ihres Festivals gastiert Elena Bashkirova regelmäßig in den führenden Konzerthäusern Europas und Amerikas, sodass das Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival in seinem zehnten Jahr über größte internationale Reputation verfügt. Bei seinem Debüt bei den Jüdischen Kulturtagen ist das Ensemble in der Synagoge Rykestraße mit Werken von Robert Schumann und Erwin Schulhoff zu erleben.
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AUGUST 17 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2008
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‘Bibi+Hamas’ blame Cabinet’s decision to release of 200 prisoners (Shas supports Bibi) Aug 17, 2008
Mofaz (Kadima) slams Livni (Kadima) for supporting release of Palestinian prisoners Aug 25, 2008 / By Haaretz
Court rejects prisoner release petition Aug 25, 2008 / By Jerusalem Post
Court: PA must compensate family of U.S. terror victim Sep 2, 2008 / By Haaretz
Court allows rightists to march through Israeli Arab town Sep 4, 2008 / By Haaretz
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AUGUST 4, 2008
Supreme Court Outside Israel
Israel High Court says government acting unlawfully Bombay News, India – Aug 4, 2008
Court, state clash over barrier route
Aug 3, 2008 23:43 | Updated Aug 4, 2008 9:06 / By Jerusalem Post, DAN IZENBERG
Talkbacks for this article: 11
In one of the most bitter clashes in memory between the High Court of Justice and a representative of the State Attorney’s Office, Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch on Sunday accused the state of violating a ruling handed down 11 months ago regarding the route of the West Bank security barrier between the Palestinian village of Bil’in and the urban settlement of Modi’in Illit.
The conflict came during a hearing over a motion for contempt of court filed by attorney Michael Sfard on behalf of Bil’in residents after the state failed to find an alternative route to the one rejected by the High Court on September 4, 2007. A few days after Sfard filed the contempt of court petition, the state presented a proposal for a new route. Sfard fired back that the new route ignored all of the guidelines the court had given the state in its September ruling.
Attorney Avi Licht, representing the state, disagreed with Sfard. All three justices – Beinisch, Supreme Court Deputy President Eliezer Rivlin and Ayala Procaccia – disagreed with Licht.
In its September 4, 2007, ruling, the court criticized two elements of the barrier route between Bil’in and Modi’in Illit. In the northern part of the segment, the original barrier route had left all of Wadi Dolev, a fertile area of hundreds of dunams owned and farmed by Bil’in villagers, on the Israeli side. At the same time, the southern part of the original barrier route was designed to protect Phase 2 of a new housing development project called Matityahu East, even though the land earmarked for Phase 2 was empty and there were no detailed plans for its development.
The court ordered the state to move the barrier to include as much of Wadi Dolev as possible on the Palestinian side and said the route should not be built on Palestinian-owned land. Regarding the southern segment of the barrier, the court ordered the state to move it so that Phase 2 of Matityahu East would be on the Palestinian side.
According to a new proposal presented by the state to the court on Sunday, the northern segment of the barrier was shifted so that some of the Wadi Dolev land would be on the Palestinian side. However, the route of the barrier continued to be on privately-owned Palestinian land. Meanwhile, the state did not shift the southern segment of the barrier at all, so that all of Phase 2 of Matityahu East remained on the Israeli side despite the court’s instructions.
Licht said the state could not follow the court’s guidelines regarding the southern segment because that would mean that the barrier would be situated only a few meters away from the houses of Phase 1 of Matityahu East and this was too great a security risk. He argued that the state had adhered to the court’s order not to take Phase 2 of Matityahu East into account in determining the new route but that the result had been the same – all of Phase 2 remained on the Israeli side of the barrier. The difference was that this time, the route had been determined to protect the existing Jewish residents of Phase 1 and not the future Jewish residents of Phase 2.
Beinisch ruled that the state had indeed violated the court’s ruling from September. She said that if the state had concluded that it could not obey the ruling because of security concerns for the residents of Phase 1 of Matityahu East, it should have come back to the court and told it so, instead of claiming that the alternative route was in keeping with its allegedly reasonable interpretation of the court ruling, which, she repeatedly insisted, was not reasonable.
Toward the end of the heated discussion, Licht informed the court that the state had come up with an alternative barrier route that would provide security for Phase 1 of Matityahu East and still leave some of Phase 2 on the Palestinian side of the barrier.
Beinisch gave the state 45 days to present its new proposal. She gave Sfard three weeks to respond to the proposal after it is presented to the court. Beinisch added that the court would hand down a ruling on whether to penalize the state for contempt of court at the end of the hearing on the alternative route.
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AUGUST 6, 2008
Supreme Court Inside Israel
Supreme Court ruling: Individuals can sue PA
Aug 6, 2008 12:36 | Updated Aug 7, 2008 13:41 / By Jerusalem Post, DAN IZENBERG
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a ruling by Jerusalem District Court and ordered it to hear a lawsuit filed by a Jewish land-purchasing company in the West Bank demanding compensation from the Palestinian Authority for failing to enforce an Israeli court judgment.
The case involves the Alon Moreh Land of Israel Seminary Association, which is represented by attorney Nitzana Darshan-Leitner. The company bought land from Palestinians after a village mukhtar attested to the fact that they owned it. However, it turned out that the mukhtar¹s affidavit was false. The company sued the estate of the mukhtar in an Israeli court and won. In an appendix to the 1995 Interim Agreement between Israel and the PA, Israel and the Palestinian National Council agreed to enforce the rulings of each other¹s courts.
However, the PA did not enforce the ruling against the mukhtar¹s estate.
On April 23, 2006, Jerusalem District Court rejected the lawsuit. Judge Boaz Okun ruled that the interim agreement had changed the status of the Palestinian Authority in Israeli law and that it therefore had the status of a quasi-sovereign body and that, although not recognized as a state, it had the three main components of statehood: a territory, a population and a government. Therefore, the company could not sue it.
Darshan-Leitner appealed the lower court decision. In the meantime, the Supreme Court ruled on an appeal against a Jerusalem District Court decision on a similar matter. Some 15 lawsuits had been filed for damages against the PA, regarding either personal or economic suffering because of terrorism for which the PA was allegedly responsible. There, too, the question revolved around the status of the PA, that is, whether or not it was a sovereign government that could not be sued by individuals from another country.
The Supreme Court ruled that the determination of whether or not the PA was a sovereign body was relative. It had to do with the specific PA action under consideration. If the action was defined as ‘an act of government,’ the PA could not be sued. If it was not an ‘act of government,’ it could be sued. The only institution authorized to determine whether or not the PA¹s action in any given lawsuit was an act of government, meaning that in such a case the PA was a sovereign body and could not be sued, was the Foreign Ministry. The courts could not do so. Therefore, the Supreme Court ruled that each of the 15 lawsuits had to be heard separately and the Foreign Ministry had to determine the PA¹s status in each one.
In the event, the Foreign Ministry declared in each of the 15 cases that the plaintiffs could indeed sue the PA.
Based on this ruling, the Supreme Court concluded that the case of the Alon Moreh Land of Israel Seminary Association must be returned to the Jerusalem District Court and the court must ask the Foreign Ministry to decide whether or not the PA could be sued.
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JUNE 21, 2008
Supreme Court Inside Israel
The Apartheid Road — Silence of the Judges (Don’t travel on Route 443)
June 21, 2008 / By Boaz Okon
Source: Yediot Aharonot
[Note by Adam Keller: Boaz Okon is a prominent jurist, was a judge on the Jerusalem District Court and registrar of the Supreme Court, and since his resignation in 2006 is the juridical commentator of Yediot Aharonot. The following article appeared not only on the op-ed page, but also with a box, containing a summary, placed conspicuously on the paper's front page -- which is quite exceptional. Exceptional in the opposite direction is the fact that this article, unlike many others of Okon's, was not included in the Y-net website nor translated to English. This I have decided to do myself.]
There are acts for which in retrospect we would not be able to forgive ourselves. Moment for which we would ask ourselves how we could have been so stupid. In order to overcome our shame and confusion, we will try to find support in the claim that “things were different then” or that “that’s the way everybody was thinking at the time” or with arguments of national security.
Such moments come also for elected institutions, legislatures and governments, which in stormy situations, out of righteousness or security hysteria, are passing laws or defining policies which afterwards could not possibly be explained. This also happens to courts, when they abandon their fundamental duty to uproot any manifestations of racism.
Such a moment in the history of the US Supreme Court was, for example, the Dred Scott Case (1856). The court in this case decided that a Black person cannot be a citizen, since he belongs to an inferior race. Another such moment was the notorious ruling of Justice Holmes (1927) approving a Virginia State law providing for the forced sterilization of retarded persons, since “Three generations of imbeciles are more than enough.”
Now, our Supreme Court is also approaching closer to such a shameful moment. On its desk is the appeal lodged by ACRI (Association for Civil Rights) and by Palestinian villagers against the decision of the Defense Minster to block Palestinian traffic on the part of Route 443 which goes through the West Bank (Modi’in — Jerusalem), and allowing passage to Israelis only. The Defense Minster gave the order to create a network of alternative roads for the Palestinians, which came to be knows as the “Fabric of Life Roads”. All for reasons of security, of course.
Had words been capable of dying of shame, the words “Fabric of Life Roads” would have died long ago. In the 1980′s, a narrow village road was widened into a full-fledged inter-city highway, the present Route 443; in order to achieve that, the land of Palestinian villagers was confiscated; now, these villagers are forbidden to use that route, and face new confiscation of lands in order to have new routes, supposedly aimed at their own good, with tempting and cynical names, created for their use.
“Security” has been used, more than any other word, to justify acts of infamy. This word is like a suitcase with a false bottom, outwardly carrying a legitimate interest and in fact carrying a negative, illegal load.
For the time being, the Supreme Court ruled on March 3, 2008 not to deal with this appeal at all, and asked the Defense Minster to provide within six months information on the progress in construction of the “Fabric of Life Roads”. This week, the court rejected a request by ACRI to hold a hearing on the subject anyway. In this way, the court in practice endorsed the decision of the Defense Minster, a decision which is leading us beyond the doorstep of Apartheid.
The rolling thunder of that decision is strong that no one can but hear it. The judicial backing of the Supreme Court serves as its powerful amplifier.
Sometimes, we prefer to become voluntarily blind, and rely on various bodies to take the decisions in our place. “It is a fact,” we tell our conscience, “that the judges have convened and taken a decision, we are no longer personally responsible”. Such a silencing of the conscience has a tendency to develop into a chronic disease, which through continuing erosion becomes a habit of obscuring even the most heinous of deeds.
Of course, the Supreme Court will continue to express its shock at individual act of discrimination (“An Arab was no allowed into the water park”, “Ethiopians were not allowed to register their children at a Petach Tikva school”) but will shrug at a comprehensive official policy which is systematically criminal.
So, what can we do? It is not always possible to rely on mass decisions, on institutions, on courts. It is possible to travel to Jerusalem by Route 1 only. ACRI should distribute stickers with text “I don’t travel by Route 443″ and all of us should avoid using this road until the evil decree is removed.
Adam Keller, the translator, is a spokesperson for Gush Shalom. The article was published in Yediot Aharonot in Hebrew on June 10, 2008.
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Supreme Court Inside Israel
Settlers are above LAW (From Jul 25, 2008 to Present)
JIWON: Since this collection is regularly updated, go to the category to click the exact title, please.
