How’s this for an implict study in contrasts?
Hadash MK Muhammad Barakei sent a letter to the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Wednesday offering to serve as a witness and provide evidence in the case on the fence.
Barakei, whose proposal was sent on official Knesset letterhead, said the fence is being established on “occupied Palestinian land” and causing the imprisonment in “ghettos” of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
How many other countries allow supporters of enemy regimes dedicated to their destruction to be elected to Parliament? That would be none. I don’t want to point to this argument as an example of the banal “look how democratic Israel is” line, but rather as another one of those breath-taking big-picture things. These kinds of examples serve to cut through all of the ticky-tack back-and-forth about whether the status of human rights is worse in Israel or in Arab regimes – ultimately, Israel is a democracy and the countries that want to destroy it are mostly totalitarian and theocratic cesspools.
