We have had many occasions to speak about the unspeakable, that is, the biased courts and the dual judicial system in Israel, in which one set of laws and rules operates for Leftists and a second for everyone else. The system is run by the Supreme Court and by Mister Judicial Activism, Chief Justice Aharon Barak (no relation to Ehud other than in political philosophy), the man who put the Arab murderers of the child Dani Katz back on the street, the man currently blocking any introduction of "constitutional courts" in Israel lest they infringe on his turf. And while everyone is suddenly celebrating the uncharacteristic courage of the Knesset in stripping Arab Fascist Knesset Member Azmi Bashara of his parliamentary immunity - this for calling for murders and attacks on Israel while seated alongside the head of the Hizbollah, there is in fact nothing to celebrate. All that will happen is that the dual justice system will acquit Bashara in the name of free speech, all the while holding that Kahanists must be prevented by the police from speaking or holding posters because they are "terrorists" unlike the PLO.

But none of the previous atrocities by the politicized courts can match this. Friends, the Courts have decided to make war on the family of MIA Ron Arad and make them pay money to his kidnappers and possible murderers.

Ron Arad is the Israeli airman who has been missing in action ever since he bailed out over Lebanon and was captured by a Shi’ite terrorist group headed by one Mustafa Dirani. Dirani then "sold" Arad to Iran, in violation of the Geneva Convention, and he has never been heard from since. Israel later captured the very same Dirani, along with the bloody Sheikh Obeid, the "religious" guru for the Hizbollah. The two have been guests of the Israel prison system ever since, passing their days watching the VCR and playing computer games. And since Israel has no death penalty, they simply await the next time the Hizbollah grabs a group of Jewish hostages before returning to their civics activism.

Now the leftist Jewish lawyers for the two captive terrorists have been lobbying for them for many years, and a few months ago appealed to the Israel Supreme Court to order that the government allow the Red Cross to visit these two Nazis. The military opposed, but Mister Judicial Activism agreed and issued a writ ordering the visits. He said it was all part of being "humane", and - as you know - when any Israeli politician talks about being "humane" it is time to run for the bomb shelter and to hide your wallet. Now let us note that these two gents are neither Israeli citizens nor ordinary prisoners of war, but murderous barbarian terrorists, who have about as much rights under the Geneva Convention as does bin Laden.

The family of Ron Arad was outraged. No Red Cross visits with Ron have ever taken place, and Mister Judicial Activism did NOT condition the Red Cross pilgrimage to the two Nazis on their first visiting Ron Arad or with the four other missing Israelis held by Hizbollah (three of whom have since been pronounced dead, apparently murdered by the Hizbollah while in captivity).

So the Arad family submitted its own appeal to the Supreme Court and protested the previous ruling. No Ron - No Red Cross Visits with the Nazis, that is their position.

Their petition has not been heard yet, but the Supreme Court, headed by Mister Judicial Activism, has now ordered the family of Ron Arad to deposit 10,000 sheqels of their OWN money as collateral with the Court. The idea being that if - as is expected - the Court finds in FAVOR of the terrorists, then Dirani and Obeid will be awarded the Arad family deposit as "compensation" for their court expenses. Meaning, the Arad family will be coerced by Israel’s imperious politicized leftist Supreme Court to grant vacation subsidies to the two terrorists, one being the kidnapper and possible murderer of their son.

Steven Plaut

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