ACCORDING TO AN ISRAEL HaYom ARTICLE, The Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the Central Elections Committee's decision to disqualify MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint Arab List) and far-right activist Baruch Marzel (Yahad Haam Itanu) over their alleged incitement and racism.
One of the two wants to destroy Israel and turn it into "Greater Palestine" and has committed what in any other country would be considered treason.
The other candidate would like Israel to be "Arab-free."
The Israeli press tosses them into the same basket with the label "Extremists."
COWARDLY COURT
The article continues:
In what was an 8-1 decision, the court said Zoabi and Marzel would be eligible to run in the upcoming election despite their controversial conduct, although it did not elaborate on the specific allegations against them. In the majority opinion it was explained that in light of the constrained timetable --- with elections are less than a month away -- the rationale for the decision would be made available at a later date. (Emphasis mine.)
The Central Elections Committee, which unsuccessfully again tried to bar Zoabi from running - and was, once again, deterred by the Supremes - wanted to prevent Zioabi's candidacy for having voiced outspoken support for an armed struggle against Israel, noting that her behavior was a form of sedition and that she posed a threat to the state.
Zoabi was aboard the Mavi Marmara bringing weapons to Gaza and encouraged those aboard to resist Israeli military who ordered the ship to stop and be searched.
According to the Times of Israel, Zoabi
*was under investigation for saying that the killers of three Israeli teens in June were not terrorists. She is also under investigation for accosting a police officer in Nazareth
* Zoabi, who participated in the 2010 flotilla sail to Gaza organized by the Islamic IHH group in Turkey, recently angered right-wing lawmakers with articles she penned that they interpreted as advice to Hamas on how to defeat Israel and as a call for violence against Israel.
All Ms. Zoabi wants to do is destroy Israel and send it back to its pre-1948 status.
ON THE OTHER HAND, Israel HaYom reports,
The Coalition against Racism in Israel criticized the court's decision to greenlight Marzel's candidacy. "Unfortunately, the Supreme Court paved the way for (Rabbi Meir) Kahane to return to the Knesset," the groups said in a statement, referring to the leader of the Kach party who was assassinated in 1990. "Marzel has stated that he no longer subscribes to Kach's ideology but these declarations are nothing more than lip service. We believe the Israeli public will vote against racism and in favor of democracy, " the statement continued.
According to Wikipedia,
Baruch Meir Marzel is an Israeli politician. Marzel, an American-born Orthodox Jew, lives in the Jewish community of Hebron in Tel Rumeida with his wife and nine children. He was the leader of the far right-oriented Jewish National Front party. He is now a member of Otzma Yehudit. He claims he was the "right hand man" of assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane, acting as spokesman for the American rabbi's Kach organization for ten years until it was outlawed in Israel and the US as a terrorist organization. The mainstream Israeli press regularly describes him as an "extreme right-wing activist". The "main stream" Israeli press is not identified.
Strange bedfellows before the Supremes,
