When Politics Masquerades as a Supreme Court

Posted on November 23, 2008
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It is a basic principle in law that which an individual or individuals have bought and paid for becomes part and parcel of their possessions. An exception to this principle and one which has a good moral grounding, consists of a case where the purchase is illegal because it compromises public safety, or is otherwise in conflict with the law. Here is one case however, where Israel’s Supreme Court arrogates unto itself a right which no Supreme Court in any free country would dare appropriate for itself, as the very act would run afoul of the very concept of law and order. As Israel Insider reports:

Minister vows to expel Jews from Hebron “Peace House”

Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said Thursday that the Peace House in Hebron would be evacuated within a month. In a conversation with a Ynet reporter, he said that “Within 30 days, this house will be cleared out and turned over to the state until the court issues its verdict.” Dichter had just met with top police officials, IDF officers and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) agents and ordered them to remove the Jews from the home “exactly as written” in the High Court eviction order. “The rule of law is not a suggestion, but rather an operation to be accomplished completely,” he said.

Dichter said Implementation of the eviction order will constitute “a test for the rule of law in Israel,” and expressed the hope that the eviction would proceed peacefully. “There are some who understand that the High Court’s order is binding, and I hope there will be dialogue and there will be no need to use force.” However, law enforcement agents are prepared to use force if necessary, he added. Hebron’s Jewish community contends the house was legally purchased from a local Arab, and has presented audio and video recordings that show him acknowledging the sale.

The High Court, however, has ruled that the 24 Jewish families who live there must be removed while a lower court determines who is the rightful owner of the property. In addition, the court ruled that groups representing Hebron’s Jews must pay the governmet NIS 15,000 ($3750), and another 15,000 shekels to the Arab who now denies having made the sale. The previous owner says the sale never went through, and claims Jewish families took the building by force. However, such denials are commonplace: were he to admit selling the building, he could be tried and sentenced to death under Palestinian Authority law which forbids selling property to Jews.

Jewish residents of Hebron have called on supporters to resist the planned expulsion, claiming that the court’s decision to force Jews out was made for political reasons, to prevent Jewish growth in the disputed city. At least one Member of Knesset has also opened an office in the home.

Dichter said Implementation of the eviction order will constitute “a test for the rule of law in Israel.” Frankly, it is obvious that “the rule of law” has little to do with reality. Israel’s caretaker government, a government that lost all legitimacy when PM Allmerde refused to do the honorable thing by resigning in the wake of the Wynograd Commission report with the complicity of current heir apparent Tzippi Livni. For Public Security Minister Avi Dichter to rejoice at such a blatantly partisan decision by Israel’s Supreme Court, shows the contempt he himself has for the rule of law. In spite of the overwhelming evidence that Hebron’s Peace house was legally bought and paid for, the court decided it is more expedient to throw the new owners out of their property even before all the evidence has been examined and verified. This, sadly, proves that evidence, law and basic human rights are of little import to this so called Supreme Court when upholding the law and basic human rights becomes politically inconvenient.

In the best tradition of Europe’s Nazi past, in the finest form of a young George Soros, Israel’s Supreme Court finds it expedient to dispossess Jews of their rightful property! I would smile at the irony if my heart was not screaming out against the injustice!

While I hardly touch upon my religion, while I barely expound upon my faith in these pages, I feel obligated to do so before I proceed to dissect the news according to current day law… This past Saturday, every synagogue on this planet read the Torah (Five Books of Moses) portion of Chayei Sarah (Genesis 23:1- 25:17). In it we read that following Sarah’s death, Abraham insisted on buying rather than receiving a gift of a plot where to bury his dead (Genesis 23:7-9)

“Then Abraham rose up and bowed down to the members of the council, to the children of Heth. He spoke to them saying: “If it is truly your will to bury my dead from before me, heed me, and intercede for me with Ephron son of Zohar. Let him grantme the Cave of Machpelah which is his, on the edge of his field; let him grant it to me for its full price, in your midst, as an estate for a burial site.”

Let him grant it to me for its full price. What is that full price? Slyly, while appearing ready to make it a gift, Ephron suggests the then exorbitant price of 400 silver shekels including the surrounding field. Abraham understood the hint and in everybody’s view he weighed out, “arba me’ot shekel kesef over lasocher – for hundred silver shekels in negotiable currency (Genesis 23:16).” Then the narrative continues (Genesis 23:17-20):

And Ephron’s field, which was in Machpelah, facing Mamre, the field and the cave within it and all the trees in the field, within all its surrounding boundaries, was confirmed as Abraham’s as a purchase in the view of the children of Het, among all who came to the gate of the city. And afterwards Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave in the field of Machpelah facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Cana’an. Thus, the fieldwith the cavethat was in it, was confirmed as Abraham’s as an estate for a burial site, from the children of Heth.

Thus Abraham bought and paid for the field of Machpelah facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Cana’an. The Babylonian Talmud (in Tractate Bava Metzya – folio 87a) explains that a silver shekel was worth far more than an ordinary everyday shekel. So, how much did Abraham actually pay for Sarah’s and subsequently the Patriarchs and Matriarchs’ burial place and surrounding areas? The Talmud tell us that the silver shekel was known as kentenaria. Its worth, as RaSH”I (the foremost Jewish commentator on the major body of Judaica. Without Rabbi Shlomo Itzchaki’s explanations, it is very hard to properly grasp the meaning of Jewish Scripture and the Talmud) points out is equivalent to 2500 regular shekels. Thus Abraham paid 1,000,000.00 shekels!!! Moreover, he quickly agreed to such an exorbitant price without resorting to the customary middle eastern haggling… Two other places, as well, were bought with money and without haggling by the Israelites of the Bible, one of them is the place where Joseph is buried, the other is the Temple Mount.

Joseph is buried in the city Shechem. As we are told (Genesis 33:18-20):

Jacob arrived intact at the city of of Shechem which is in the land of Cana’an, upon his arriving from Padaan-aram, and he encamped before the city. He bought the parcel of land upon which he pitched his tent from the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father for one hundred kessitahs. He set up an altar and proclaimed, “God, the God of Israel.”

The Temple Mount, which used to the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, was bought by King David (Chronicles I 21:25):

So David gave Ornan for the place gold shekels, weighing six hundred.

Successive Israeli governments gave away the Temple Mount within days of reconquering it during the Six Day War in 1967. Joseph’s Tomb, in the city of Shechem (Nablus), was shamelessly abandoned under former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Only the Cave of Machpelah (although not in its entirety) and its immediate surrounding area remain in Jewish hands and now under the guise of law the world’s most activist Supreme Court is about to strip the Jews of what they bought and paid for, again:

The Israeli government is currently planning to throw a large group of Jews in a building called the “Peace House” in Chevron out in the street. This building was bought legally, and the contracts, and even videotapes of the transactions, have been brought before the court. Even so, the government has decided to expel these Jews from their home and to make them pay a fee of 15,000 shekels to the previous owner.

Rather than leave the status quo until the evidence is fully studied – as any court of law is obligated to do – when it is not hampered by political considerations that have nothing to do with with justice or righteousness of judgement – Israel’s Supreme Court hurries to dispossess the rightful owners of the newly acquired posession. In Deuteronomy 16:20 we are told:

Justice, justice you shall pursue, so that shall live and posses the Land that the Almighty, you God, has given you.

When Israel’s Supreme Court forgets its duty of pursuing justice, when it no longer cares about the patrimony of the Jews as it looks for that ever elusive approval of the gentile nations, it is obvious that law and order are no longer to be protected by this court. As the group Emergeny Assembly, in Facebook, proclaims:

The Israeli Supreme Court ruled yesterday [November 15] that the residents of Bet HaShalom in Hebron have three days to evacuate their legally purchased homes.

For thousands of years, Jews have bought houses and fields in Eretz Yisrael — even the Ottoman Empire didn’t deny them that basic right. It has taken a post-Zionist, post-Oslo Israeli government working hand in hand with a hopelessly politicized judicial system to adopt a racist policy of preventing Jews from buying and holding property in the Jewish homeland.

The rights of the Jewish People in Hebron are not subject to debate. They are eternal rights that are thousands of years old. Whoever denies Jews the right to buy property in Hebron, weakens their rights everywhere in the Land of Israel.

The struggle over Beit HaShalom is:
* a struggle for justice over land legally purchased,
* a struggle over the Jewish and human right to acquire property,
* a struggle over the rights of the Jewish Nation in the Land of Israel

The battle over Beit HaShalom [Peace House] is therefore the battle of every Jew.

It is also the battle of every law and order loving, every law abiding citizen of every free nation on this earth. No court has a right to act according to politics, as opposed to upholding the law. To let politics supersede the rule of Law – to blatantly ignore evidence – is the first step towards fascism, the first step towards a brutally repressive regime which, though it may be de rigueur in the Middle East, will never achieve any legitimacy nor will it ever be approved of by the gentile nations, not for more than a few weeks at best…

Israel’s highest Court has finally abandoned all pretence of safeguarding the law. By doing that it set itself up for the Jews being once again sent into exile. This time, however, the despot who acts so immorally, so cruelly, is none other than another Jew that rejects the word of the Almighty, a Jew that rejects the truth, a Jew ashamed of his legacy, a Jew who denies the most basic laws… all the while masquerading as a Supreme Court… Pity!

Chaim

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