Thursday, 31 May 2012

A passionate opinion

Click here to read Will PM-appointed panel throw out a lifeline for disputed settlements?

In June of 2005 the Supreme Court did what everyone in Israel presumed it would: It deemed that summer’s looming disengagement from Gaza to be legal.


Out of 11 judges who dealt with the matter, there was only one in dissent. Justice Edmond Levy, an Iraqi-born, religious, former Likud member, a judge who had sentenced Yitzhak Rabin’s murderer to life, a champion of both human rights and the court’s right to judicial review, penned a passionate, historically detailed opinion favoring settlers’ rights to the land of Israel over the right of the Knesset to withdraw its sovereignty and citizens from Gaza.

Click here to read Jimmy Carter Agrees With The Muslim Brotherhood On Israel.





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