Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Israel and the rule of law
Israel's Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Palestinian plaintiffs and ordered that the IDF tear down a portion of the separation wall and build it on a route that substantially reduces the burden on the local residents. Israel remains the only country in the region that would even entertain a lawsuit by its putative enemies, much less rule in their favor and order its own military to change its behavior. This fact, almost by itself, ought to sustain support for Israel among the West's chattering classes. We are not holding our breath, though.
It is also, unfortunately, asking too much to expect the Arab "street" to draw any genuinely useful lesson from this episode.
3 Comments:
By 
art.the.nerd, at
Tue Sep 04, 01:55:00 PM:
It is also, unfortunately, asking too much to expect the anti-Israel left (in the US and Europe) to draw any genuinely useful lesson from this episode.
By Unknown, at
Tue Sep 04, 06:38:00 PM:
It is also, unfortunately, asking too much to expect the Arab "street" to draw any genuinely useful lesson from this episode
You underestimate them. They have learned the value of lawfare and this will serve to reinforce its use.
By Georg Felis, at
Tue Sep 04, 06:57:00 PM:
In response, today hordes of Palestinian Suicide Lawyers flung themselves at Israeli courts, each one clutching a Suicide Suit against random Israeli citizens. The carnage was legendary. An innocent bystander was quoted as saying, “I didn’t know what was happening. One moment everything was all peaceful with only the occasional random rocket falling among our children and the next moment I was being sued for millions of dollars. It was just horrible, I may never recover despite years of expensive therapy.”
Tragedy was narrowly averted as the Israeli leadership opened the Strategic Lawyer Reserve, flooding the raising tide of lawsuits with countersuits and quit-claims. By evening the only evidence of the chaos were a few scattered billing records littering the grounds and empty parking lots at the nearby BMW dealerships.
(OK, so I'm not IowaHawk. Sue me :)
