The Israeli PM’s spat with US ambassador Dan Shapiro shows a government intent on suppressing and delegitimising any leftist anti-occupation sentimentDan Shapiro,the US ambassador to Israel – an American Jew who speaks Hebrew and who does not hide his deep bond with the country – made a simple observation final week: Israel, he said, or seems to acquire two standards of adherence to the rule of law: one for Israelis and another for Palestinians”.
This is a simple fact. While he probably did not mean to call Israel out for its two separate systems of law – but rather for not enforcing the law as effectively when it comes to Israeli culprits as it does for Palestinian ones – everyone interpreted it this way. It is,after all no secret that Israel invented an intricate military-legal system for regulating its control over the Palestinian population living in the lands occupied in 1967 precisely in order to entrench separate systems for Israelis and Palestinians.
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Source: theguardian.com