The Israeli government’s decision to target NGOs that criticise its behaviour towards the Palestinians is given appropriate context by leading peace activist Jeff Halper:
Every dictator, from Hitler to Milosevic, has said that there must be no interference in their sovereign affairs, and that everyone else should butt out. But international law says human rights are universal and cannot be left to individual governments to interpret. The idea behind the Geneva Conventions is that the international community has a duty to be the watchdog on human rights abuses wherever they occur.
This is a point I’ve been making for yonks .i.e. Israel maintains an intellectually & morally corrupt political class, which automatically cancels any pretence to democracy & it functioning institutions. Even that far right Zionist zealot Dizzy Isi Liebler (DIL), shares this view. DIL says it will bring Israel down if not stopped. How could this failed political model be called ‘democracy’.
And to think Rudd opened our country’s parliamentary chamber to these murderous thungs: and I include Lipni.Barak et al, along with that sleaze Nota-yahoo, as those Israeli MP’s who believe they’re justtified shooting missiles, rockets & large calibre bullets., into innocent civilians…….more than 1300 killed…along with Israel’s last gram of credibility.
You have to ask, apart from Ha’aretz & it’s 2 million Israeli supporters, the Israeli Left is dead in the water…..I still don’t understand why?