Netanyahu has taken Israel’s crackdown on Jewish dissent to a new low | Mairav Zonszein | Opinion | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/26/netanyahu-shapiro-israel-crackdown-dissent
Dan Shapiro, the US ambassador to Israel – an American Jew who speaks Hebrew and who does not hide his deep bond with the country – made a simple observation last week: Israel, he said, seems to have “two standards of adherence to the rule of law: one for Israelis and another for Palestinians”.
This is a simple fact. While he probably did not mean to call Israel out for its two separate systems of law – but rather for not enforcing the law as effectively when it comes to Israeli culprits as it does for Palestinian ones – everyone interpreted it this way. It is, after all no secret that Israel invented an intricate military-legal system for regulating its control over the Palestinian population living in the lands occupied in 1967 precisely in order to entrench separate systems for Israelis and Palestinians.
