Yoav Stern and Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondents and Haaretz Service: Rightist MK whisked out of poll in Arab city after violent protest
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Name:j10
City: jerusalemState: israel/usa
This is ridiculous drivel. It boils down to the fact that any group of arabs can threaten violence against a Jew exercising his legitimate fundamental political, free speech or freedom of religion (e.g., going on to the Temple Mount to pray) rights and they automatically get to veto those rights. Instead of the state police power being used to protect the exercise of those rights as it should it applies contradictory standards to that exercise based on the political lienings of the power elite. No way could a group of crazy right winger jews threaten violence and thereby prevent muslims from exercising religious or political rights. The police, courts and prosecutorial agents of the state are tainted with left liening politics and are therefore viewed by many citizens as part of the problem and not as their agents or public servants.