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Police allow anti-war protesters to raise Palestinian flags
Aviad Glickman
Published: 02.01.09, 13:19
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1. BAN all demonstrations for a while!
Gavriel ,   Budapest, Hungary   (01.02.09)
Yes, Israel is a democracry BUT.: Anti-Israel demonstrations put in danger Israel's position on an other front: the so called international media front which is already 99% pro-Palestinian. Palestinian flags waving in Tel Aviv and Jerusel give legitimation to those who want to wipe out Israel of the map. These demonstrators want nothing else than to delegimitize Israel's right not only fot self-diffence but also for existence. Israli police will have very difficult times and the extrem left-wing protestors in alliance with Israeli Arabs makes the military results in the Gaza Strip less effective! I think, not there is a special situation of war. Banning rallies and demonstrations during the Gaza ops, is not anti-democratic, it's for the sake of Israel's military success!
2. Its not good will.
(01.02.09)
Its the fear of a deadly forth comming intifada.
3. ever heard of arab converted to Judaism?
observer   (01.02.09)
why should they raise a Jewish flag?
4. awful
Ilana   (01.02.09)
I am nauseated and disgusted by the behavior of Israeli citizens. Sometimes I wonder if a democracy is always a good thing. How they feel no shame is beyond my comprehension.
5. Any more doubts we are the only true democracy in ME?
Tahl ,   Ashdod, Israel   (01.02.09)
All those who called Israel racist, or "democracy" with quotes, have now got their answer. Even though I think this decision is suicidal, I guess this is a frog we'll have to swallow in the name of democracy and freedom of speech. I'm waiting to see now when similar leftists in Gaza or the West Bank, would wave Israeli flags?
6. Strange
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (01.02.09)
So while a war is waging, protestors will be waving the flag of the enemy as children cower in shelters and soldiers face the fact that tomorrow they might die. This is the price we pay for freedom of speech. Last week, the same system prohibited Israeli citizens from waving an Israeli flag in an Israeli city. Israel is a strange country
7. NOW EVERYONE WILL KNOW WHOSE BONES TO BREAK!
(01.02.09)
That was a very good decision by the police. These flag waving idiots deserve to be taught the realities of waving red flags in front of bulls. What idiots!
8. ABOLISH THE HIGH COURT
Michel Slonimski ,   Paris, France   (01.02.09)
The High Court has turned into a an elected dictatorial power working, out of sheer stupidity, I am sure, toward the destruction of the State and the nation. As Mitterrand, the clever Socialist president of France, once said : "Bad institutions should not be reformed but abolished".
9. Can I wave an Israeli flag in Ramallah?
Playing dumb   (01.02.09)
or Umm el Fahem? Just asking.
10. #5
Gloria ,   Israel   (01.02.09)
This decision is sheer stupidity, if not crime against The Jewish State. I prefer no democracy to this kind of democracy. Sticking to democracy that does not protect itself in the face of danger leaves no room for survival. It is suicide, plain and clear. P.S. This "Justice" and his colleagues should live and work in Sderot, not on luxurios and very well protected premises in Tel Aviv. The saying:"Be toh ami ani hai" evidently does not relate to them.
11. #6
GLORIA ,   Israel   (01.02.09)
WHAT?!!!!!!!!!?!!!!!!!!!!?!!!!!! WHERE????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12. #7
Gloria ,   Israel   (01.02.09)
Police will break no bones, don't worry. They are afraid of another OR committee, which, by the way, was established by Ehud Barak, in pursue of Arab voices, evidently.
13. #8
Gloria ,   Israel   (01.02.09)
How correct!!!
14. #9
Israeli ,   Israel   (01.02.09)
And Um-El-Fahem is located within the borders of Israel!!!
15. I Raised mine in 1982
R Hitchings ,   Amsterdaam   (01.02.09)
Same Year as George Galloway raised the Palestinian flag over Dundee Town House... After the now Comatose Arial Sharon arranged for the massacre of 2000 Palestinian men women and children.. Sharon is now with the living dead Pay back from God.
16. Would the h.c.j. allow someone to fly a
jason white ,   afula,israel   (01.02.09)
nazi flag on Holocaust Memorial Day? They are killing and wounding us and yet the "judges" allow traitors to fly the enemy flag. But you cannot fly the Kach flag. That is illegal. I think we could do without courts in Israel till we get Zionist Jews appointed. No foreigners should use our high court. No court shall interfere in defense matters.
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