The police have arrested a prominent Israeli Arab named Ameer Makhoul, and have cast a gag order over the entire story. The Israeli media is doing its best to report without reporting. (If this blog goes offline, well, bye bye....).
I have nothing to say about the matter itself at the moment, since there's no real information out there, not in Israel and not abroad. Oodles of speculation, however: which is why I wish our security agencies would take a course in Media 101, and figure out if these gag orders are worth the damage they do. For days on end they leave the media to speculate about how awful and anti-democratic and fascist and totalitarian we are; eventually the gag order will be lifted and it may well turn out that there are very real allegations behind the arrest. That's what happened last time, in the Anat kamm case. So why be so inept on the media side of the story?
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thanks for the info
but what are they to say, if they don't have someting to say? - if they say that they have nothing to say yet, the media is going to have a ball with their facial expressions...
- if they still aren't sure yet that the guy has told them all he knows why warn his buddies instead of keeping them in suspense
As to the no lawyer claim US-media report that after the undie- and the Times-Sqaure-bomber a change of Miranda is seriously considered.
maybe Israel is just being a "trend-setter" again like she was with targeted killings.
shortly after 9/11 it was clear to me that the time of the unrestricted open society would have to come to an end - hopefully a sane discussion is going to start soon on how to go about it smartly instead of hurling all or nothings around at every occasion
Silke
The gag order has been lifted and the usual suspects are rushing to attack the Shin bet:
Two Israeli Arabs arrested on suspicion of spying, contact with Hezbollah
"Hussein Abu Hasin, a lawyer who has handled several cases of spying charges, told Haaretz that espionage laws in Israel were so wide-ranging that an internet chat or telephone conversation with anyone in an 'enemy state' could lead to prosecution.
"The use of these laws has become draconian," Hasin said. "
No doubt Gideon Levy will agree with him.
I wonder what Hasin would say, if the laws were not "draconian" ...
Silke
He (Draco) replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by a written code to be enforced only by a court.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_(lawgiver)
It will be lifted once the details appear in the American press. Then it seems absurd Israelis cannot read in Hebrew what the entire world already knows.
And secrets are hard to keep in Israel
All the world knew was that he has been arrested. Nobody knew the details although coming from that political party where there have been precedents of spying for Hizballah for money at the height of he second Lebanese war, it was easy to figure out.
Here's another gag....
Except that this joker is serious.... Sigh....
whenever a "European" dares to object to letting the caliphate take over he/she is accused of Islamophobia and disrespect for "their" culture so watch your words ;-)
but how about the Byzantines having been there before the caliphs ?
- the Russians claim that they are the true heirs of Byzantium and Lieberman is from Russia, isn't he?
eh voilà, there's a way to out-strut them ... but of course that might be disrespectful ...
as to never having had it so good: at The Atlantic there is a report by Martha Gellhorn from October 1961 "The Arabs of Palestine" http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/the-arabs-of-palestine/4203/
Silke
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