seymour, seymour (sometimes affectionately known as cesspool by our canadian friends) maybe they should arrest Sir Jackson, chief of army and general staff in britain, and Sir Peter Del a Billiere (head op operations) for illegaly invading iraq and causing the deaths of thousands of innocent non-combatants time and time again, even up until last week, under the excuse ''collateral damage''. If you can do it then where do you get off criticizing us old bean? Whats good for the brits is good for us Israelis. So in a word: sod off. "god save our nobel queen (because no one else will), god save the queeeeeeeen''

MR.CHAIM MISGAV IS CORRECT. THE LAWYER REPRESENTING THE PALESTINIAN DID IT ONLY FOR THE MONEY. HE WAS WLLING TO HARM HIS COUNTRY. HE DISGRACED HIS FAMILY AND HIMSELF. I WOULD ASK THE ISRAEL GOVERNMENT TO REVOKE HIS CITIZENSHIP. SHALOM.

So, if I understand the thrust of the article correctly, and of many of the subsequent 'talkback' comments, retaining citizenship in Israel should be dependent on not challenging the actions of the government or public servants. Is that correct? It seems an odd concept of democracy. One is only allowed to remain a citizen of a country if one agrees with the government and do nothing in public to challenge its actions, even if under international law, those actions are actually illegal. Sounds rather familiar. Germany, 1930's that sort of thing. In a mature democracy the citizens of a country can call its servants to account before the courts or before international courts if the law so permits. But then Israel is not really a democracy, is it?

Interesting to note that giora , dundee says that Machover should be kidnapped as he is a criminal and so has no rights and another here says he should be murdered. First, I know of no evidence that Machover is a criminal. Second, I'm not aware that Israel claims that criminals have no rights. Nor anywhere is it permissible to kidnap people, even if it is alleged that they have committed a crime (or is it the case that we can try to kidnap Sharon, as an alleged war criminal?). And finally, I think it's a crime to incite murder, as has been done here. So, presumably giora , dundee and others would say that the contributor of that 'talkback' item has no rights. Or is it that he or she can now be killed with impunity? Some of you Zionists have a lot to learn about law and democracy. But keep up the good work ... with comments like these, who needs an anti-Zionist movement?