IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

Israel: the co of apartheid

Red Weekly No. 24, 26 October 1973 · pp. 4-5 of the scan · 251 words

The scan: rw-no24-oct-26-1973.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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*The regime which has been set up with the publication of these decrees has no equivalent in the democratic countries. Even in Nazi Germany there were no such laws.* His name is Yukor Shapiro, and today he is Minister of Justice in Iscael. He spoke with such finality in 1946 about the emergency powers in force under the Bricish protectorate before the establishment of Israel. But these famous laws, worthy of Nazi Germany, have since been incorporated into Israeli legislation. This brief example shows clearly that the Zionist State has nothing in common with the myth of a blissful democratic paradise flowering in the Middle East.

Although a man is traditionally considered innocent until he is proved guilty, in Israel the opposite is true: under the law on State security a man is guilty until he can prove his innocence THE HAIFA TRIAL Emergency powers, the law on State security: this pazody of justice has struck down Isracl militants of the extreme left, both Jews und Arahs, in the last lew months, Falsely accused of spying, one of thent, Kami Livneh, was sentenced co ten years it a closed prison. He is the son of a Communist MP in the Knesset (Israeli parliament). Torture was used to extract from him all kinds of confessions. Lineh and the other defendants in the trial at Haila were in fact tried for belonging to an

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seduce the Palestinians to the conference table with promises Zionist State.

General Dayan puts it,

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