Shahar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondent: Peres: Public will rule on any deal reached with Palestinians
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Title:Israel and the Dawning of the Police State
Name:Joseph E .
City: Givatayim State: Israel
Israel no longer possesses an independent and impartial law enforcement mechanism.

the specter of criminal indictments and corruption hang over an Israeli prime minister who is in the midst of negotiating matters of life and death on behalf of the Jewish state. If history is any guide, one or more of these charges will remain hanging over Olmert like a sword until he leaves office.

Israel`` prime ministers are being blackmailed, squeezed into making dangerous sacrifices in national security in return for saving themselves from prosecution, and from personal and political destruction. Many of Israel`s key police officials, judges, prosecutors, attorneys-general and comptrollers are instruments of those who are viciously opposed to anyone who would undermine the "peace process."

It is clear Israel is close to becoming, at least temporarily, an autocratic police state. If allowed to continue, these forces will proceed with ruthless efficiency against those living in Judea, Samaria, the Golan and Jerusalem.

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