Monday, November 10, 2008

Our inept justice system


By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank

"Everything seems to be collapsing in the nominally-autonomous enclave, known as the Palestinian Authority these days.

The executive authority, which really has no authority or sovereignty of its own, has become too authoritarian and tyrannical and, of course, too corrupt.

The legislative authority is paralyzed due to the mass incarceration by the Nazi-like Israeli occupation regime of dozens of lawmakers for their refusal to recognize the “legitimacy” of Zionism and the Israeli apartheid state.

And the media, the fourth estate, has likewise been thoroughly corrupted due to the virtual absence of press freedom and freedom of speech as a result of the consolidation of an American-sustained reign of terror now being consolidated in the West Bank.

Now, the Palestinian Justice System seems to be collapsing as well, mainly due to its growing subservience to the executive power, particularly to the police-state apparatus......"

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