Backlash Against Administrative Orders as Mother-of-6 Arrested by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)
”They Send Enough Police to Arrest a Mafia Crime Boss”
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Administrative detention, a legal remnant from the British Mandate period, allows security forces to hold citizens in prison without allowing them to meet with a lawyer, stand before a judge or even be informed of the allegations against them. At this time, at least fifteen Jewish activists are being held by the government in such a manner.
The Shas Party will raise the issue of the use of administrative detention against Land of Israel activists at Sunday’s cabinet meeting, according to MK Yaakov Margi. “This is a tool that must not be used so readily, and certainly not against Jews,” Margi told Arutz-7. He says he will discuss the matter personally with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and Public Security Minister Avi Dichter.
One of those being held without trial is Ariel Groener, who works for the Honenu Legal Aid organization, which has been a leading proponent of doing away with administrative detention. Groener has been imprisoned for a month and a half and is due to be released on August 31st. Honenu officials suspect that a pretext will be created to keep him imprisoned even longer, however.
The Mattot Arim Land of Israel activist movement embarked Thursday on what they say will be a prolonged campaign combating the use of administrative orders against residents of Judea and Samaria. The movement terms the policy, “political oppression of the settlers by way of the legal system.”
Mattot Arim spokeswoman Suzy Dym says the result of the administrative orders – not just imprisonment, but often restraining orders and house arrests far from activists’ homes – create an intolerable situation, which is implemented without a trial. She points out that it is now turning into the tool of choice for pushing through the forced expulsion of Jews from places in Judea and Samaria. The campaign, she says, will focus on the fact that, “the settlers are not the enemy and are not terrorists.”
Dym says the campaign includes calling upon MKs and government ministers to ensure that a resident of Judea and Samaria, like any other resident of the State of Israel, if suspected of any crime, would be treated by the police and prosecution in a reasonable manner, without the use of administrative orders and other extra-judicial loopholes. “We are asking for adherence to equal enforcement,” Dym says. “The law must be enforced equally for an Arab and a city-dweller suspected of similar crimes.”
”They Send Enough Police to Arrest a Mafia Crime Boss”
Dozens of police entered the community of Tel Menashe Thursday afternoon to arrest Miriam Adler, a mother-of-six who was forcibly expelled from her home in Sa-Nur last summer – a month before the rest of the community was evicted.Adler, a vocal leader of the struggle against the destruction of four communities in northern Samaria, was placed in administrative detention together with her husband shortly before the implementation of the Disengagement. Police used much force in apprehending the couple while they were visiting family in Gush Etzion. Their six children were left alone to face the riot police who arrived at their home to force them to leave. Adler filed a police complaint against the arresting officers, but she says the case was closed without any investigation of the matter.
Adler was forcibly arrested Thursday following a court order dealing with that very incident. The reason for the arrest, however, was her refusal to appear before a Jerusalem court on charges that she attacked the four arresting police officers. “I refused to dignify the indictment with any response and so they sent enough officers to arrest a mafia crime-boss to bring me to court by force,” she said.
Commentary;
In a Real Jewish Nation with a Real Jewish Leadershp and Government, Jews don’t get sent to administrative detention and lose the benefit of rights under Jewish Law.
Susie Dym speaks of “adherence to equal enforcement,” that “the law must be enforced equally for an Arab and a city-dweller suspected of similar crimes.”
The reality of equal enforcement is, by it’s nature, enforcement which comes down on the side of, and to the benefit of the Arab and the resultant laxity of application to Arabs and resultant strictness and harshness in application toward Jews.
In short, in a Jewish Nation, with a Jewish Government, only Jews and those who recognize and respect Jewish sovereignty over Jewish Land shall be conveyed citizenship and voting franchise. Those who would not so recognize and respect Jewish sovereignty over Jewish Land, Eretz Kedusha shall be expelled or subject to less that full citizenship rights, including loss of voting franchise. MB