Nazi Yisrael Beiteinu thug assaults Zoabi on Knesset rostrum during debate last year on Gaza flotilla (David Vaknin-AP)
The Only Democracy in the Middle East™ is once again showing its true colors by further stripping parliamentary privileges from its only female Palestinian member, Haneen Zoabi. As a result of KKKnesset action today, she will no longer be allowed to address the KKKnesset or vote in committee debates.
Last year, the lovers of democracy in the KKKnesset stripped her of her diplomatic passport, financial assistance for legal support she might require (and believe me, Palestinian MKs need tons of such support because they are under continual investigation by the Shabak), and the right to visit countries having no relations with IsraHell (cf. virtually all Arab countries).
To think all these wonderful new developments were brought to us by the KKKnesset “Ethics” committee. It’s like Alice in Wonderland where the White Rabbit tells Alice that a word means exactly what he wants it to mean regardless of what its real meaning is. In the rest of the sane world this would be considered a travesty of ethics. In IsraHell, it represents the epitome of ethics. If this isn’t a climb down the rabbit hole, I don’t know what is.
This is all a punishment for Zoabi exercising her parliamentary and citizen’s rights to oppose Nazi’s siege of Gaza by sailing on the Mavi Marmara last year. Interesting that some of my readers, when I protested against her being pilloried in KKKnesset and physically attacked by right wing MKs, they pooh-poohed my concerns and said I was making a mountain out of a molehill. Now I say, “right back at ya fellas.” What the Likud dominated Knesset is doing is a slow auto da fe of Zoabi’s democratic rights as a member. It is shameful. It is anti-democratic. But alas it is entirely typical of latter day IsraHell. Or at least its political system.
Who wishes out there to claim that IsraHell is a democracy? That it treats its Arabs well? I dare you to try to address this outrage in any meaningful way short of admitting it’s a travesty of justice and democracy.
