Zahava Galon is a Member of Knesset with the liberal Zionist Meretz Party. She has recently spoken out against several laws which have been submitted to vote in the Knesset
According to Member of Knesset, Zahava Galon, from the Meretz Party,
(Haaretz, 19 August 2008), during the last fifty days of the summer
session of the Knesset, 16 anti-democratic laws have been submitted to vote by
Israeli parliamentarians. According to Haaretz columnist, Akiva Eldar,
most of these laws have been supported by the Labor Party:
1)
An amendment to
the civil-damages law which exempt the government from paying damages to
innocent Palestinian bystanders hit by the Israeli military in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories; this amendment is retroactive;
2)
An amendment to
Israel’s penal code, exempting the police from needing to document
interrogations of persons suspected of a security offense;
3)
Immunity for a
person who attacks a trespasser on his property;
4)
A Requirement
of a national referendum or a majority vote of 3/4 of the Knesset Members in
order to ratify a peace agreement involving any return of territories;
5)
An amendment to
the Knesset Basic Law that cancels the right to be elected to the Knesset of
anyone who has visited an enemy-country without prior permission (nicknamed the
“Bishara Amendment”);
6)
An extension
for the eighty year (sic) of an emergency measure that prohibits Palestinian family
reunification into Israel of a resident of the occupied territories, (there is
a pending procedure in the Israeli Supreme Court against this measure).
7)
The prohibition
of mourning ceremonies for someone who
has committed a terror act;
8)
No pension for
a Knesset member suspected of an offense against state security;
9)
The cancellation
of citizenship or residency rights to members of the family of a terrorist;
10) Amendment to the Entry to Israel Law, which allows for the
detention of a person asking for asylum for up to nine (sic) years;
11) A prohibition against artists who have not served in the Israeli
military from performing in a event subsidized by the state;
12) The Jewish National Fund can allocate state lands to Jews only;
13) An amendment to the Citizenship Law that would transfer the
prerogative of canceling citizenship from the Ministry of Interior to an
Administrative Court;
14) The cancellation of state allocation for the burial expenses of a
terrorist;
15) The right to keep in jail, until the end of hostilities, whoever is
considered "illegal fighter," even if he was never put to trial;
16) A pardon to all those Israeli citizens who have been sentenced regarding
activities against the redeployment from Gaza.
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