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Terrorist running for city council
Ronny Shaked
Published: 31.10.08, 16:17
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1. Challenging democracy
John   (10.31.08)
The good: Israel is still a real democracy, where anybody can run for office. Israel is still a true legal system, protecting everybody, and being able to put anybody to justice. The bad: The hatred and vitriol is challenging democracy - people get increasingly provoked and can lose their belief in the system. A vote for Saadi is a vote for conflict, and can turn out to be a vote for transfer, if things go real bad.
2. should be illegal
alan ,   texas, usa   (10.31.08)
Someone or many must be crazy You outlaw the Kahane party and let arab terrorists into the government. Nuts??
3. saadi
jack ,   ny, usa   (10.31.08)
i think i am going to be sick to my stomach.
4. She should be deported to Afganistan
Logic ,   Israel   (10.31.08)
And we need to change the laws to close this loophole where criminals/terrorists can vote and run for office.
5. Accept this person at your peril
russel ,   Tlv   (10.31.08)
Vote her in and I leave.
6. I agree with #1, John
Robby ,   San Jose, USA   (10.31.08)
American democracy survived David Duke, Israel can survive this.
7. now, she is in the Hadash party
observer   (10.31.08)
do you believe that Israel has the custom of issuing Persilscheins.
8. Jewish terrorists also held political office
Palestinian ,   Palestine   (10.31.08)
Lets not forget then Begin and other jewish terrorists who had much blood on their hands ran and held office in Isreal. Enough of double standards. Similarily, convcited criminals in israel including murderers and rapists are allowed to run for office after their release from prison. so, whats unusual about this case?? people can decide whether she is fit or not or is it a case of a law for the jews and another for the arabs?
9. STOP THE TERRORIST
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10. # 8 Begin attacked the British military
(10.31.08)
not British civilians.
11. begin and DIr Yassin
Palestinian ,   Palestine   (10.31.08)
Begin and his gang massacred hundreds of palestinian villagers in Der Yassin village including women and children, as admitted by many jewish veterans of the 1948 war. Shamir killed a UN peace envoy and many civilians. This is the ugly face of some israeli leaders that some dont want to see
12. War criminal Sharon was your Prime Minister!
Sami ,   Nablus, West Bank   (10.31.08)
13. How the hell are the Kahane's barred from the Knesset
Ken Jurist   (10.31.08)
They let this murderer run and the Kahane's are barred. How sick is this?
14. Who Cares
Obama ,   Seattle, USA   (10.31.08)
Let the terrorist run for office, nobody will vote for her besides other terrorists. This story is pointless and just proves that we should discredit the "legitimate" hadash party. I agree with other talkbacks deport her to Afganistan or Iraq
15. To no 11 - Dir Yasin
Avi ,   Nof Kineret, Israel   (10.31.08)
In 1948 the arabs started terror campeign all aroud the country. In particular Arab villages on the road to Jerusalem blocked the way and put the Jews under seige. They were trying to kill trhe Jews and drive them out. Arab terrorists blew trucks with explosives in downtown Jerusalem and etc. The Jews were fighting for their lives trying to open the blockade. It was very difficult because Arab villagers sat on the mountains killing and murdering anybody travelling on the road. Then some clever Jews came to the conclusion that the only way to save Jerusalem is to start attack back the villages who were terror center. Dir Yasin was attacked. Arab terrorists and their familis got killed and Arabs started to run away and created a story of massacre. This created more panic among Arabs and many started to run away and leave. This is how Nakba started. If Arabs were sitting in peace and not running terror campeign against Jews there was no need to attack their villages and there was no Nakba. Arab people are growing on their hateful propaganda. Trying to terror and kill their neighbours and when the Jews respond they cry foul. This story repeats itself many times. This episode on this lady from Sakhnin is just one more example. She should be hanged for helping terrorists. But she is free and creating more hatred. One day she and her family will suffer again as well as many other Jews and Arabs.
16. The Arab minority in Israel.
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (11.01.08)
Israeli Arabs are not Israeli, and how could they be? Israel is a name set aside for the people of Israel. Arabs who live here can be called "Arabs with citizenship of the State of Israel", but they are certainly not 'Israelis'. Ask them and they will tell you the same thing. Israel is the country that we have built. We the Jews, the Children of Israel, have returned to our land and have built a prosperous and healthy country in which Torah flourishes alongside advanced farming, life-saving medicine and computers. As to the Arabs living in Israel consult the declaration of the US congress in 1922 : http://xrl.us/ou89o
17. How can this be allowed when Kahane Chai is banned?
Steve ,   Australia   (11.01.08)
She is a Muslim terrorist and she is allowed to run for office. So how is it that the Kahane Chai are banned from running for office and designated as a terror group? If there was any common sense in the government, Kahane Chai would be running for office, while the Hadash party was banned and classified as a terrorist organisation.
18. Only in Israel... .
Zvi   (11.01.08)
19. Don’t be wonder in U.S Obama running for Presidency,
e.m.Jordan is Palest ,   s.f   (11.01.08)
And the worse the majority of idiots Jews going to vote for him too,
20. Complicit and Accomplice
Shimon ,   Cincinnati, USA   (11.01.08)
Why isn't she in jail and then deported on completion of sentence?
21. RE #15 And Avi's convenient view of history
Johan Odin ,   Oslo, Norway   (11.01.08)
You forget that Irgun and Lehi invented terrorist tactics such as bus and marketplace bombings in addition to massacring civilians in villages such as Deir Yassin . Deir Yassin was neutral in the conflict and in fact had made a pact with Haganah to render no aid to any militants, yet the village was still attacked and the innocent men, women and children living there murdered by members of the terrorists groups Lehi and Irgun. That is a historical fact that you cannot hide or ever hope to excuse with your lame attempt to justify the murders of innocents over the actions of others. Deir Yassin is one of Israel's many original sins and is something that will forever be part of Israel's history, so accept it and stop making excuses
22. #8 stop the disinformation
Tahl ,   Israel   (11.01.08)
There are no double standards here. First, there were much fewer Jewish "terrorists" by your standards, than Muslims, and second, whatever "terror" Jews used before the establishment of Israel, was directed specifically against British soldiers, who were stationed in Palestine. Not against innocent Britons in London or Manchester.
23. Hadash's response is extremely disturbing.
Tahl ,   Israel   (11.01.08)
First, I thought it was illegal for a political party, to actually support the destruction of the state it operates in. This is called self-defending democracy. But Hadash calls Saadi's actions as "fighting against the occupation". Which occupation? Of Palestine? But she's an Arab-Israeli from Sakhnin, which is within Israel's 1967 borders! So are we to understand the "occupation" Hadash refers to, is the Jewish occupation of Israel proper, i.e. - Israel has no right to exist, according to this party? Second, on one hand they're saying they object to the killing of innocents, and on the other, they don't even bother to deny Saadi's involvement in the terrorist attack. They don't say it's a lie, false accusation, or an exaggeration. They know it's true, and yet it doesn't matter to them. This is a severe case of hypocrisy. Third, they say that they "have no faith in the court that sentenced her, as it is a part of the Israeli establishment". Once again, they disassociate themselves from Israel... And I'm wondering - would they have faith in the Israeli court, had it aquitted Saadi? That is - only if it suits their political agenda? In this extremely disturbing response, Hadash has proven its terror-sympathizing true colors.
24. Arab terrorist running
DT ,   TA Isr   (11.01.08)
This is the absurd face of Democracy in a country were democracy is conveniently restricted in the existing governmnet
25. # 21 Are you trying to claim there was no battle
Bill ,   US   (11.01.08)
at Deir Yassin and that it was just a one-sided assault? If so, don't lecture us on history.
26. #21: Compared to how many by "Palestinians" & sympathizers?
Global Citizen ,   Israel & USA   (11.01.08)
Those are historical statistics "that you cannot hide or ever hope to excuse with your lame attempt to justify the murders of innocents over the actions of others"
27. Poor interpretation of democracy
Raphael ,   Netanya   (11.01.08)
The french Revolution leader Saint Just told:"No liberty for the enemies of liberty". If you let islamofascists infiltrate the democratic system, you let them destroy it. So, no democracy for the enemies of democracy.
28. I for one Vote for Transfer, dont want them here,period.
Yisraeli   (11.01.08)
29. What Israel needs is a dictatorship. Vote for change!
Itzhak ,   Florida   (11.01.08)
Expel all Arabs to Gaza and Jordan , shoot any border intruder on the spot, strip all hardened criminals and mobsters from their Israeli citizenship and deport them to Russia in a secret mission. Establish a Guantanamo style prison where the Israeli Secret Service will extract information on terrorists and their symphatizers. Enough of the bull crap with democracy in Israel. It just doesn't work there. I am ready to lead Israel to a strong Israel. Vote for Itzhak!
30. And now?
i ,   jerusalem   (11.01.08)
where is the moral turpitude clause gang?
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