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To: Thomas M. who wrote (12100)	3/1/2002 4:57:44 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

So much for "The-only-Democracy-in-the-Middle-East".... Do you think that those Israeli Fascists ever grasped the notion of Separation of Powers? Israeli Arab Lawmaker Denies Charges Thu Feb 28, 2:40 AM ET By AMI BEN-TOV, Associated Press Writer NAZARETH, Israel (AP) - An [Christian] Israeli Arab lawmaker has become the first ever member of Israel's parliament to go on trial for political statements. Azmi Bishara faces charges of incitement to violence for praising Lebanon's Hezbollah guerillas and encouraging Palestinians to resist Israeli occupation. He denied wrongdoing, saying he was being prosecuted for his views. He smiled when he arrived Wednesday at the courthouse in his hometown of Nazareth in northern Israel. "I think that those who planned this trial already regret what they did because they can't judge me on my political position without me arguing my political position, not without the trial becoming a platform for debate on whether opposition to the occupation is legitimate or not," said Bishara. Bishara has said that although he is committed to the Palestinians' right to overthrow Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, he has never called for the use of force. [snip] story.news.yahoo.com Israelis might want to take a leaf out of Thomas Jefferson's book: Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government 21. Separation of Powers: Legislative, Executive and Judicial The principle of separation of powers applies not only to the Federal and State governments, but also to the three branches within each government. When this separation is properly respected, no single branch can gather sufficient power to itself that will allow it to exercise despotic control over the whole nation. etext.lib.virginia.edu Excerpt: "For the Judiciary to interpose in the Legislative department between the constituent and his representative, to control them in the exercise of their functions or duties towards each other, to overawe the free correspondence which exists and ought to exist between them, to dictate what may pass between them and to punish all others, to put the representative into jeopardy of criminal prosecution, of vexation, expense and punishment before the Judiciary if his communications, public or private, do not exactly square with their ideas of fact or right or with their designs of wrong, is to put the Legislative department under the feet of the Judiciary, is to leave us, indeed, the shadow but to take away the substance of representation, which requires essentially that the representative be as free as his constituents would be, that the same interchange of sentiment be lawful between him and them as would be lawful among themselves were they in the personal transaction of their own business; is to do away the influence of the people over the proceedings of their representatives by excluding from their knowledge by the terror of punishment, all but such information or misinformation as may suit their own views." --Thomas Jefferson: Virginia Petition, 1797. ME 17:359 "If the three powers maintain their mutual independence on each other our Government may last long, but not so if either can assume the authorities of the other." --Thomas Jefferson to William Charles Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:278 _______________________ Israel, America's best friend?!? LOL... Jefferson must be turning in his grave.