<h3 class="storytitle">In a nutshell, Meir Ettinger, a young Israeli Jew, has been held in Administrative Detention in Israel for six months IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. Defense Minister Ya'alon has just extended the term for another four months.</h3><p>. </p><h3 class="storytitle">An administrative detention order deprives a person of his basic rights. He can be held for six months without being charged or tried and the order can be renewed indefinitely.</h3><p> .</p><h3 class="storytitle">Ettinger is being held under arrest not because of any illegal acts, but because of his opinions and his calls to bring down the existing political establishment and to replace it with a kingdom. He has not been charged with anything.</h3><h3 class="storytitle"> .</h3><h3 class="storytitle">Here in Israel, it is accepted that opponents of the establishment, and even opponents of democracy as a whole, enjoy freedom of expression. This is the reason that the Hadash party, a Marxist-Leninist party which favours replacing democracy with a Communist dictatorship, is a legal party with representation in the Knesset, whose members are allowed to express themselves freely. This is the reason that the Unified Arab List, which includes elements which support replacing democracy with an Islamic dictatorship, enjoys the same freedom.</h3><p> .</p><h3 class="storytitle">In the name of justice, ETTINGER must be released from detention.</h3><p> .</p><h3 class="storytitle">PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION AND FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.</h3><p> .</p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, READ THE FOLLOWING TWO ARTICLES.</span></p><h3 class="storytitle"><a title="Permanent Link to Let Meir Ettinger go. Restore his civil liberties." href="http://www.israpundit.org/archives/63612421" rel="bookmark">Let Meir Ettinger go. Restore his civil liberties.</a> </h3><div id="homestory" class="storycontent"><p><strong>T. Belman.</strong> Since posting this, a Judge extended Ettinger’s detention for another 4 months. This is an outrage. Arab MK’s are far more dangerous to the state and also want to destroy it. Why are they not also in detention for one year? Why?</p><p><strong>T. Belman</strong>. Curtailment of liberties in times of civil unrest or threats to national security is common in all countries. But the extent is hotly debated. For instance the when the the Patriot Act in the US in the wake of 9-11 its terms were hotly debated, with the Left staunchly in support of liberties and the Right favouring security.</p><p>The Left in Israel is dedicated to fighting for liberties also, except it has no quarrel with Administrative Detention of Jews, that violates many liberties. The Israeli Right on the other hand waxes eloquent on behalf of security but is outraged over such detention. As they say, it depends on whose ox is being gored.</p><p>A the core of these differences is whether one believes that Administrative Detention must be applied equally to citizens and non-citizens or equally to Arabs and to Jews.</p><p>I do not support Administrative Detention of the Hilltop Youths including Meir Ettinger but I do support its use against Arabs. I make this distinction easily because I think the Arabs who align with the Arab cause are an existential threat to Israel whereas the hand full of Jewish youths who are attracted to Ettinger’s ideas, present no national threat at all.</p><p>There is no question that people were murdered in Duma. Let us assume for a moment that Jews were responsible. As you know all societies are plagued with murders. Yet in the search for the murderers, western societies maintain all the civil liberties. They do not suspend them to catch and convict the murderers. Nor do they torture them to get evidence or confessions. Even if the murders are “heinous” murders.</p><p>In short, I see no justification for suspending the liberties of Meir Ettinger or other Hilltop Youths. They are not a threat to the Nation. And this applies whether any of them are suspected of killing an Arab or a Jew. In the case of Ettinger he is not suspected of killing anyone.</p><p>As long as the Arabs present a danger to our National rights or existence, I think Administrative Detention should be applied to them.</p><p><strong><em>Administrative detention can be renewed forever.</em></strong></p><p>by Libby Kahane, <a href="http://israelnationalnews.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">israelnationalnews.com</a><br />January 24, 2016</p><p>My grandson is in danger</p><p>The imprisonment of my grandson Meir Ettinger brings back difficult memories for me. I don’t know how many people remember that my late husband Rabbi Meir Kahane, zt”l was jailed under those same despicable administrative detention orders in May 1980.</p><p><br /><a class="more-link" href="http://www.israpundit.org/archives/63612421#more-63612421">(Read more…)</a></p></div><h3 class="storytitle"><a title="Permanent Link to Letter to PM Netanyahu on the continued detention of Meir Ettinger" href="http://www.israpundit.org/archives/63612546" rel="bookmark">Letter to PM Netanyahu on the continued detention of Meir Ettinger</a> </h3><p>.</p>
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