Comments on: Testimonies: Israelis tear-gassed pleading asylum seekers, dragged them to Egypt

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:18:22 +0000

IDF reservist, serving on Sinai border disputes the claims in Dimi’s article.

http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=285241

By: sowhat

sowhat — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:13:15 +0000

They are coming to Israel because they are being paid to go there. This should have been done a long time ago.

By: klang

klang — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:36:20 +0000

Why do the refugees want to come to Israel? As a loyal 972 reader and a particular fan of Yossi Gurwitz and Lisa Goldman, I have concluded that Israel is the worst place on the planet. Perhaps the refugees are fleeing Israel for Egypt. Pls clarify

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:26:39 +0000

Israel doesn’t have a constitution.

By: Son of a refugee

Son of a refugee — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:36:06 +0000

My family could not have survived the Holocaust without the kindness of strangers who risked their lives. Freud has told us – what you don’t remember you tend to repeat. The Holocaust is not remembered – it is merely an excuse to hate the rest of the world.

By: Oded

Oded — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:33:57 +0000

We’re losing? We’ve lost a long, long time ago.

By: Greg Pollock

Greg Pollock — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:20:18 +0000

I am disgusted by High Court Justices postponing a hearing over Shabbat, leaving these people, admitedly by the State on Israeli territory, yet two more days in the desert. A US Federal Judge would have remanded these people into State custdody until a hearing to determine their dispostion. Obviously–obviously–the Court allowed the IDF two more days to make the problem go away; but the Court’s duty is to justice under the law and, once in Israeli territory, the refugee treaty demanded a hearing.

The High Court is not an independent branch of government. You have no one to police your “constitution” except national “correct thinking.” There is no doubt that this attitude more than seeps into the treatment of minorities under Israeli jurisdiction overall. You are in a battle for the rule of law, and you are losing.