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Excellent article... But is this actually possible? Israel has made MANY STUPID MISTAKES, that are putting a "BULLSEYE" on the back of the USA, and threatening to start WW3 against Iran in the ME...Engineering the "SCRIPT " laid out in bible prophecy. This would certainly lead to the collapse of the financial system as we know it... While the leaders of Israel KNOW THIS & are in COMPLETE DENIAL... Will I be labelled a Self-Hating Jew for "DARING" to speak out, like the author of this article?

Israel consists of both Arabs and Jews. Both under the same law. Both suffer from government bureaucracy, and usurpation (as in every country). To take a single action where an Israeli Arab suffered the consequences of a police mistake is demagogic. This is not to say that racist people don't exist in Israel, in fact they do. But such factions exist everywhere. By the same method one can take any European country with some injustice done to a Muslim, and claim it is a racist regime. Behind the superlatives and very emotional narratives, there is no real content. You are simply wrong - no other way to put it.

Give me one name of a middle eastern country where all faiths are treated equally, including Jews. There isn't! As for Europe, in many countries Muslims do not have the same rights; witness the laws forbidding head covers for women. It may not be right but it's reality and even more so for Israël, a country at war

the uk went to war in iraq based on ouright lies. no one in high office has been held accountable. the uk is really not an example to be followed by anyone, not even those who might think the iraq war was justified. the numerous war crimes cannot even be listed and are mostly unknown.

The rule of law is valid only in ISRAEL .... In West Bank and Gaza must be applied the rule of war with all the consequence ..... in a war

YHWH gave Israel its set of laws almost 4000 years ago. All that Israel needs to do to prosper and be free is to obey them. Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalaym!

There are examples of orders issued by duly constituted courts, high courts, that go ignored. In particular, orders having to do with demolitions and occupations and who is allowed to use roads and who is not come to mind, not to mention the disputes that are judicially settled that have to do with the orthodox nutjobs that get ignored. The Rule of Law in Israel is becoming a joke.

No one can tell us what to do. If we carry out a military operation with questionable methods, no one should challenge that. If we screw up handling a flotilla on one of whose ships are a group of men seeking martyrdom, because we are let down by our intelligence services, no one can question it. If we do in fact investigate national military calamities, we are told that officers are upset at being quizzed, and our political leaders ignore the findings of Commissions of Inquiry that provided blue prints for how to deal with the next threats. Our police shoot to kill 13 Palestinian Israeli citizens nearly 10 years ago and not one officer is charged or penalised. We are not willing to be accountable - to ourselves let alone to the outside world. And we can't cite our past and our suffering and the Shoah as justification for our unaccountability. We were once a minority during which we dreamed of being better than our oppressors and being the best our values taught us. We too easily forget being a minority and go far in the other direction and will not be queried. That's not tribal, that's the behaviour of a people abused, now become abusers - of their minorities and of themselves - and like all abusers we are in deep denial of it all. HELP!

...is that Israel could be "relinquishing" the rule of law as generally practiced in the "Western World"--and opting for the rule of law as generally practiced in the "Middle East"--sort of a "When in Rome" approach--which surely has both its "pluses and minuses."

Palestinians foster one single thing. Destroying the zionist state. Israelites foster and expect one single thing: that palestinians would finally decide to create a disarmed state in most of the West Bank and all Gaza. Fair enough. Israel has not annexed legally or illegally. At the end of the day, all post 67 territories acquired in a defensive war are negotiable. It is clear indeed, that part of them will be finally annexed ( settlement blocs and parts of east Jerusalem) and that will demand a land swap. That is the whole story. In exchange for peace, fully recognition of the jewish state of israel and resettlement of refugees in the "new palestinian state" , the Palestinians would be finally entaitled to statehood, something they have not enjoyed to this day. In that state, they will be able to reject jews as citizens, and kill each other in a civil war. Nobody will intervene. They will be sovereign to suicide. Fair enough.

With no constitution, no bill of rights, and no forced compliance with high court rulings, the politicians of Israel are free to make things up as they go. They make all manner of stupid and vindictive laws aimed at their Arab opponent MK's as well as anyone else thet annoys them. The result is a very amateurishly run nation propped up by America. This is the modern face of Israel. This is what we have come to expect from Israel.

The latest draft law for Israeli citizens who want peace more than land makes promoting the boycott of firms based in the occupied West Bank punishable. Boycott used to be thought of as a non-violent way of protesting injustice - it is still considered thus in democratic countries. Basically it's left to each individual to decide whether he or she wants to boycott something. But you're not going to be allowed to admit it or encourage it and your fine money, 30,000 shekels if I understood correctly, will go to the firms you are boycotting (well.... no doubt only part of it, but who's worried about where the rest will go?). In other words, the excuse during the violence was Palestinian violence, to which our violence was said to be merely self-defence. Now that peaceful resistance is the weapon, and now that Palestinians and Israelis who prefer peaceful coexistence to perpetual strife are working and protesting together non-violently, non-violent protest will be punishable. Reminds you of that Pastor Niemoeller poem? Not a very original thought these days; it seems to remind everyone of it.

lots of accusations, little explanation

If the rule of law doesn't suit Laor, he does more than thumbs his nose at it. He writes illogical op-eds to try and make a point. He again ignores the very salient point that the Palestinians are not only much worse than Israel, but they are also the true apartheid regime in the region. Laor previously wrote that Israel is worse than the old South Africa. Yet he doesn't write that the Palestinians are officially apartheid - Jews are simply not allowed to be Palestinian citizens, hold office, vote, or own land. In fact, Palestinians voted in a death sentence for any Palestinian who sells land to a Jew. And Laor calls Israel apartheid? Get with it - expose the Palestinians for what they really are.