By Swawkbox / Larry’s List
Israel’s justice minister – and deputy PM – Yariv Levin has responded to a call by the editor of Israel’s Haaretz newspaper for sanctions on the country to force it to recognise a Palestinian state and to end its ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank, by ordering his minions to draw up a demand for prison sentences of up to twenty years for Israeli citizens who call for sanctions:
Schocken made the call during an event the paper had organised in London:
Shocken did not even mention Israel’s genocide in Gaza, but the speech provoked a wild reaction from the regime. Levin’s letter, as translated by a well-known online translation service, reads:
Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister
Jerusalem 90 • In Tashir Tashfa October 31, 2024
To him D Gal• in Harav Miara
Legal advice to the government. At issue: legislation against encouraging and supporting the imposition of sanctions on the State of Israel
I would like to contact you regarding the matters in question as follows:
1. Last night it was announced that the publisher of the Haaretz newspaper, Amos Shocken, called on foreign countries to impose sanctions on the State of Israel and Israeli leaders. Is this the first time that Israeli citizens have acted in this way.
2. As we know, for more than a year the State of Israel has been at war on a number of fronts as a murderous terrorist including as a commander of the Hamas organisation. A call to impose sanctions on Israel and its leadership, the members of the security forces and Israeli citizens is a blatant violation of a citizen’s most basic duty of loyalty towards one’s country. It means encouraging and coercing a move whose purpose is to negate Israel’s right of self-defence. This is especially serious when it is done during an existential war, and while we are building and building Held in inhumane conditions by a murderous terrorist organization.
3. In view of all this, I would like you to urgently send me the draft of a legal memorandum, which will state that the actions of Israeli citizens for the sake of killing or encouraging the imposition of international sanctions on Israel, on its leaders, For the members of the security forces and the citizens of Israel, it will be a criminal offense with a prison sentence of ten years I will also request that the burning as mentioned during wartime will be an aggravating circumstance that will allow the doubling of the sentence.
The regime’s reaction to the waking-up of some of its citizens – especially journalists – to its crimes and to the humanity and rights of Palestinians? Bang them up for a similar sentence to what they would get for murder.
Israel claims to be ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’. It is a claim that looks extremely superficial at best.
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