Would you have freed Mandela?
Yitzak Laor
Haaretz
▻http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/would-you-have-freed-mandela.premium-1.532984
Our media would have called Mandela a “terrorist.” In Israel he would have been included in the category of “security prisoners,” in other words political prisoners, who were arrested with the help of draconian laws and were tried for criminal offenses in military prisons that had about as much to do with the legal system as the Pardes Hanna firefighters’ orchestra has to do with the music of Beethoven. The evidentiary laws in those courts are absurd. For 47 years Israel imprisoned tens of thousands in the same way. Today about 5,000 political prisoners are serving time in jail. A minority really do have “blood on their hands.”