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Israeli judge rules against unfair conviction of Arab boy
Bangkok News.Net
Monday 16th November, 2009
An Israeli judge has granted protection from the justice system to an Arab teenager who threw stones at a police car during a protest last month.
The judge has ordered that the youth not be convicted despite being found guilty of the offence, which occurred during a demonstration over the Israeli attack on Gaza earlier this year.
The youth, a 17 year old, was arrested during a protest on a road near Nazareth a few days after Israel launched its operation in Gaza last December.
He could have been sent to prison for 20 years had the judge allowed the conviction to stand.
The judge ruled that while prosecutors wanted to deter other members of Israel’s Arab minority from committing similar offences, he would not jail the minor because it would be a case of the Israeli state "caressing with one hand the Jewish ideological felons, and flogging with its other hand the Arab ideological felons."
Judge Yuval Shadmi said discrimination in the Israeli legal system’s treatment of Jewish and Arab minors in similar matters had become unbalanced.
He referred to the lenient treatment by the police and courts both of Jewish settler youths who have attacked soldiers in the West Bank and of religious extremists who have spent many months battling police to prevent the opening of a car park on the Sabbath in Jerusalem.
The legal group acting for Israel’s Arab minority has said it will now use the ruling to assist it in proving that the Israeli state has pursued a policy of systematic discrimination in demanding harsher punishments for Arab citizens.
The prosecution has announced it will appeal against the decision.  Email this story to a friend
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secret slave
11-16-09, 02:27 PM |
Israeli judge quashes conviction against Arab boy
salaam,
Got prisons got slavery and what did Moses PBUH bring in the wisdom challenge of life?
Proof that slavery still exsist upon many garden accounts !
So that be slavery yet to be abolished again!
feeamanellaah
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Robert Marie Eugene
11-16-09, 03:09 PM |
Amazing
Assume this ruling will be overturned - discrimination is unfortunately there to stay for some time - but still amazing! An impressive demonstration of independence and objectivity of the Israeli judiciary system. Let’s hope this is a trend, not a one time courageous action! Not likely to see this happen in Syria ...
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Anonymous
11-16-09, 05:06 PM |
lucky the protester is not caught in iran.
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Anonymous
11-16-09, 05:14 PM |
Thank you to the Judge
a voice of reason atlast..
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The Rock
11-16-09, 10:37 PM |
Way to go judge! Let's keep up this great judicious trend
Another voice of reason which is the road towards peace and reconciliation that is so greatly needed in Israel and Palestine
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The Truth
11-17-09, 12:32 AM |
Being fair..
Lets be honest. An Israeli soldier can fire rubber bullets to dismay the youth, a youth can throw stones and get almost 20? Good call judge...why cant Israel act like the bigger brother and mediate this whole mideast process. Land is being stolen and lies become top layer in this cake. America should be ashamed to defend such an act...no wonder this country is dealing with a recession and soon to be an endless depression.
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