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 Saturday, March 6, 2004

Principles from Israel's Constitution:

"...to foster the development of the country for the benefit of all the inhabitants, based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: to ensure complete quality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants, irrespective of religion, race, and sex: to guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; to guard the holy places of all religions: and to be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the UN."

Wow. Sure would be nice if Israel's government paid attention to Israel's founding document. (Of course the same is true for the government of Israel's chief ally.)

I found a neat Israeli organization, Rabbis for Human Rights. Here is an excerpt from their Principles of Faith, affirming the dignity of human life:

"...and with our concern for human dignity and the preservation of life, be they Jews or Arabs, we are deeply disturbed by and seek to remove excesses and abuses such as:

  • Expropriation of land.
  • Uprooting of trees.
  • Demolition of homes.
  • Torture through the use of "moderate physical or psychological pressure."
  • Coercion and torture to extract confession or to incriminate others.
  • Bullying and humiliating, which is demoralizing both to perpetrator and victim: and we wish to save our children from the temptation to these vices.
  • The exercise of double standards by, or the granting of relative immunity to those who wield political or military power and authority, in the pursuit of criminal proceedings in general, through delay, evasion, and protection.
  • Shooting to kill when life is not in immediate danger.
  • Collective punishment of "children for the sins of their parents" and "parents for the sins of their children."
  • Imprisonment without trial in administrative detention.
  • Removing the rights of residence through confiscation of identity cards.
  • Sale of weapons to aggressive regimes.
  • Undercover killings.

The organization has an affiliate in North America to which donations can be made.



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