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Bill to revoke citizenship for suspected traitors passes first reading

By Shahar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondent

A bill to revoke the citizenship of people accused of betraying the state passed its first reading in the Knesset on Wednesday.

Initiated by MK Gilad Erdan (Likud), the law would allow the court to revoke a person's citizenship solely on the basis of secret evidence, provided by the Shin Bet security service.

Balad faction chairman MK Jamal Zahalka said Wednesday that the bill was a dangerous precedent to legitimize secret evidence in the Israeli justice system. "Even in court cases of top secret security offenses there is no such thing as a trial in the defendant's absence, on the basis of secret evidence," he said.

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Zahalka said he would petition the High Court of Justice against the bill if it passed second and third readings. If the High Court rejects his petition, he said he would go to the International Court of Justice.

Erdan said only the court could decide whether to hold its debates in the defendant's absence. The existing law authorizes the interior minister to deny citizenship to a person who betrays the state with no trial. However, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz said he will not permit the minister to invoke this procedure

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1.	What about Teddy Kollek?	02:58	\|	Alex	18/10/07

2.	Then Shimon Peres must resign and be expelled	03:44	\|	Boris Celser	18/10/07

3.	Revoking citizenship	04:22	\|	Victor USA	18/10/07

4.	Revoking citizenship	04:25	\|	Victor	18/10/07

5.	Revoking citizenship	04:25	\|	Victor	18/10/07

6.	Revoking citizenship	04:25	\|	Victor	18/10/07

7.	Sounds like Article 301 of Turkish Penal Code	04:26	\|	justiceseeker	18/10/07

8.	Anyone Who Wants This Power Can Not Be Trusted With It	04:47	\|	Efox	18/10/07

9.	What a laugh!	04:55	\|	Simon	18/10/07

10.	Believe in Jesus	06:55	\|	Antony	18/10/07

11.	A.SHAON,M.BEGIN,OLMART,BEILIN,PERES-TRAITORS)))	07:04	\|	VOICE)))))))	18/10/07

12.	The Arabs ca`t have it both ways	07:40	\|	Frank	18/10/07

13.	"Big Brother" arrives in Israel	08:02	\|	Natallie Durson	18/10/07

14.	I couldn`t resist taking this seriously, but...	08:06	\|	Natallie Durson	18/10/07

15.	Accusation equals punishment before conviction?	08:43	\|	Pat	18/10/07

16.	Ehud Olmert should resign NOW.....	08:53	\|	Dagma	18/10/07

17.	To Simon # 9 - The right Idea......	09:01	\|	Natasha	18/10/07

18.	There are advantages . . .	09:17	\|	JW	18/10/07

19.	Israel will be the only country in the West	09:27	\|	Rich	18/10/07

20.	Non-Citizens have it Pretty Good in Israel	09:47	\|	Efox	18/10/07

21.	At last they`ve found a way.....	09:53	\|	Dolly	18/10/07

22.	A mirror image of Orwellian American Homeland Security	09:55	\|	Ivar	18/10/07

23.	To Natallie Durson # 11	09:59	\|	Dagma	18/10/07

24.	To Ivar # 22 - WHO speaks of George Orwell	10:37	\|	Dagma	18/10/07

25.	To Rich # 19 - For your Information...	10:47	\|	Dagma	18/10/07

26.	tTo Rich # 19 - Israel must speak for itself.....	10:53	\|	Pathfinder.	18/10/07

27.	JW post 18 An Unjust System.	11:06	\|	Onlooker	18/10/07

28.	Contest of most basic citizen?s right canceling his citizenship.	11:46	\|	H.H.M	18/10/07

29.	antony, stop spreading nonsense	12:08	\|	Nephtaly	18/10/07

30.	revival of a procedure ...	12:19	\|	Axel	18/10/07

31.	EXCELLENT NEWS OUT WITH NAZIS AND OTHERS	12:21	\|	P.Best	18/10/07

32.	To H. H. M # 28 - To whom dost thou speaketh....	12:48	\|	Dagma	18/10/07

33.	Hitler would have loved this law	12:58	\|	John	18/10/07

34.	To P. Best # 31 - Of course Not!	13:00	\|	Dolly	18/10/07

35.	To Pat	13:00	\|	John	18/10/07

36.	Finally good news... can`t hardly wait!!! :) tic tac tic tac	15:27	\|	Iguana Pacheca	18/10/07

37.	Expulsion has no place in the 21st century	20:50	\|	african american	18/10/07

38.	With evidence, maybe. Without - no way.	21:09	\|	Polybios	18/10/07

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