Hamas officials to stand trial (as Terrorists)

YNet ^ | June 29, 2006 | Aviram Zino

[Alouette]

Israel plans to submit criminal charges against senior Hamas leaders arrested Wednesday night, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz rules; according to Central Command chief, detainees won't be used as bargaining chip

Attorney General Menachem Mazuz ordered security forces to carry out criminal, rather than civilian arrests of Hamas senior officials, so that they can be tried according to the Terror-Prevention Act, sources in the Justice Ministry told Ynet Thursday.

Vice Premier Shimon Peres said in an interview to CNN that Israel intended to submit indictments against the Hamas members under arrest.

Peres was asked in the interview why the Hamas top figures were arrested. He answered by saying that their arrest is not arbitrary, and added that they will stand trial and they will be able to defend themselves.

Meanwhile, Central Command Chief Yair Naveh said that Hamas members would not be used as bargaining chips, adding that they would be charged.

"The arrested senior figures are tied to financing and aiding terror attacks. Just this year Hamas killed six civilians in Judea and Samaria, kidnapped Nuriel Sasson a few months ago, and carried out shooting attacks in roads in the last few days," Naveh said.

Examining arrests

Shortly after the establishment of the Hamas government, sources at the Attorney General's Office began consultations on how to act against Hamas on the legal level.

In recent days a request was received by the political rank in Jerusalem and the Shin Bet to look into the possibility of arresting senior members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.

In general there are a number of accepted paths in such a case – the first is an administrative detention, usually carried out when there is a shortage of witnesses, or when there is a desire not to expose intelligence information. The second path is the criminal arrests, requiring a higher level of eye witnesses, beyond reasonable doubt.

It was this path that was chosen in accordance with the Terror Prevention Act. The Justice Ministry spokesman explained that all of the arrestees were Hamas officials, which is a terrorist organization, and their membership in a terror organization is a severe violation.

Sources in the ministry say the arrests could have taken place two months ago, but the decision to arrest them had to be taken by the political rank, and was therefore only carried out tonight, apparently following recent security developments.

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[The G Man]

I believe SCOTUS will vote this down ...

[IrishMike]

They are terrorists, threat them as such...period !

[sheik yerbouty]

Give them their "martyrdom"..

[i_dont_chat]

I believe SCOTUS will vote this down ...

lol

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

Yay, yay, yay, yay...yay. And let the jury of their peers be family members of their butchering rampage...

[jiggyboy]

Sources in the ministry say the arrests could have taken place two months ago, but the decision to arrest them had to be taken by the political rank...

More proof that Israel would prefer to play tit-for-tat until it is destroyed.

[randog]

Wow, this just keeps getting better! I'm now seeing the benefits of Hamas getting elected--it made rounding up all the head terrorists that much easier!

[GreenOgre]

Just a thought. Israel want's Hamas to go away. Why not let the Hamas vermin rip each other to shreds? Send them all back to their pit. Then leak each and every one of them spilled their guts while in detention. That is only the pigs who are actually spilling their guts. Well, maybe until they are worthless, then turn them over too.

[Praxeus]

"Why not let the Hamas vermin rip each other to shreds?"

This is precisely why Hamas risked the fallout of provoking the Israelis. They needed to unify the disgusting palestineans. All moves are being carefully plotted. Believe it!

[SkyPilot]

Good for Israel.

Can we send the entire staff of the NY Times to Tel Aviv so they can be face trial as well.

[Ancesthntr]

Israel plans to submit criminal charges against senior Hamas leaders arrested Wednesday night, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz rules; according to Central Command chief, detainees won't be used as bargaining chip

I believe SCOTUS will vote this down ...

lol

Don't laugh - Israel's Supreme Court is more activist and more left-wing than the Warren Court at the height of its drunkenness with power. If that bunch of commies in robes doesn't shut down the prosecution, then world pressure will.

Israel is screwed when trying to do things like a normal nation. There's a double standard that it has to deal with, on top of the handicap of Political Correctness and general moral decay that any leader of a Western nation who wishes to be assertive is afflicted with. The double standard is, BTW, amply demonstrated by the fact that Israel is the only nation that CANNOT be a member of the Security Council, and is further demonstrated by the crap that has gone on for decades about the Red Cross/Magen David Adom controversy.

Israel's only salvation is to be very assertive in its own defense and for its own interests - which almost certainly means doing without US aid each year - and to have more faith in The Big Guy. Trying to act like any other nation subjects Israel to the normal rules of nations...and nations of less than 8,000 square miles with 5.5 million people don't generally last very long.

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[Diogenesis]

========= Jerusalem =========

In Jerusalem, Israel, at the funeral of Jewish settler Eliahu Asehri in Jerusalem, Thursday, June 29, 2006
murdered by Palestinian terrorists funded by the EU and US State Dept.

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========= Ramallah =========

In Ramallah, Hamas terrorists demand more murders.

[RightWhale]

Why not let the Hamas vermin rip each other to shreds?

It wouldn't be an efficient or expeditious process.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Why not let the Hamas vermin rip each other to shreds?

Who says they aren't? Take out the entire leadership of the group and there will be considerable infighting to determine who the new leaders are going to be.

[backhoe]

Atlas had a pretty good ran going on her blog:

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PALESTINIAN TROOPS ARE NOT MILITANTS

News reports from the biased Reuters and AP (their stringers are, after all, Palestinians) continue to refer to the acts of war perpetrated by Palestinian troops in Gaza as militants.  This is fallacious.  Gaza is now in the hands of the Palestinians. There is no occupying force.  It is their land, they elected their own government (terrorists albeit, but their choice) - these are Palestinian troops and they are committing acts of war against a sovereign nation.

Israel Faces Palestinian Militants with Expanded Arsenal - Adam Entous
Israeli troops in Gaza face Palestinian militants who are much better armed than last year, Israeli officials and analysts say. Israeli defense officials estimate militants have smuggled in hundreds of shoulder-fired anti-tank missiles, thousands of assault rifles, and tons of high explosive since Israel's Gaza "disengagement" in September 2005. Maj. Matan Gorodish told Reuters militants had only a few dozen anti-tank missiles before Israel's withdrawal. "Now they have hundreds of them," he said.
    According to Israel's internal security service, militants have brought into Gaza at least 3 million bullets, nearly 20,000 assault rifles, 430 rocket-propelled grenades, and several shoulder-fired [anti-aircraft] rocket launchers. A Western security source called these numbers "underestimates."

Oh, and check this out. He brought his baby sister with him to fire rockets at Jews?

Palestinian Rocket Explodes on Launch, Kills Two, Wounds Seven - Barak Ravid
Hamas member Kasam Masoud and his baby sister were killed, and seven Palestinians were wounded, in an explosion of a Kassam rocket as it was being

Posted by Pamela aka "Atlas" on Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 10:39 AM in Palestinian Arab Peacemakers? *SPIT* | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

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Her site worth a look- she "gets it," IMHO.