Free Republic

Professor Shimon Shamir, a member of the Or Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 riots, sharply criticized the Police Investigations Department (PID) for closing the files of the 12 Israeli Arabs and one Palestinian shot to death by policemen during the riots without calling for a single indictment. "Israeli society needs a police investigation department which is both efficient and credible," Shamir said during a lecture sponsored by the Konrad Adenhauer Program for Jewish Arab Cooperation at Tel Aviv University on Monday. The lecture was entitled "The Arabs in Israel - Two Years after the Or Commission Report."...