Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Does Israel Need Laws to Discourage Dissent?

Considering Muslims to be fellow human beings, I wish them well. Jews and non-Jews have the right to free speech on issues of concern to Israel. Passing laws to discourage dissent is very probably a poor idea harmful to our democracy.
As an Israeli, however, I highly resent the implications of the proposed laws concerning dissent. Would they discourage the anti-Semites who howl for our blood? Would they extend the Jewish experiment by a single hour?
Fourteen-hundred years of oppression and 63 years of violence in Israel indicate an absence of peace in our future.
Ari Sharon said we would be ostracized no matter what we did. So, we may as well guard our rights to free speech.

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