T. Belman. I read about this in three other newspapers but none of them reported why the Courts felt Israel has a duty to treat them.
High Court overrules government ban on relatives of Hamas members receiving medical care in Israel, allowing five critically ill women into the country • Deputy defense minister: If these rulings continue, we’ll have to restrict court’s authority.
By Yair Altman, Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff
Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan, Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon
The five women appealed to the court last month after their requests to enter Israel were rejected on the grounds of their relation to members of the terrorist group that rules the coastal enclave.
The government decision denies entry for health care to relatives of Hamas members and is meant to exert pressure on the Hamas regime in Gaza, which is holding the bodies of Lt. Hadar Goldin and Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul, killed in Operation Protective Edge in 2014, as well as two Israeli citizens believed to be alive.
Four human rights groups representing the women said the government was using them and others seeking care unavailable in Gaza as “bargaining chips.”
“If High Court rulings keep going this way, we will be forced to legally restrict its authority,” Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan said Monday.
Habayit Hayehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich called the ruling “continued irresponsibility by High Court justices, who are hurting Israel’s security.”
“For political reasons, to pressure Hamas to release our captives, the government wants to prevent Hamas members’ relatives from receiving treatment. The High Court’s intervention is sheer gall. The High Court places the lives of our enemies over our ability to fight Hamas,” Smotrich tweeted.
The following Psalm, 82 in Tanakh, in the Lubavitcher translation, is an appropriate comment on th Israeli Supreme Court:
Critically ill Israelis are forced to delay lifesaving procedures in hospitals and languish on waiting lists. Hospitals in Israel are putting up beds in corridors for lack of space. As a direct consequence, a large percentage of stationary patients is condemned to contract infections and die. Some wretched patients must be fed by their families, as in Balzac novels, or they will go hungry.
Jewish restaurants in the Diaspora are teeming with orthodox emissaries from Israel, panhandling the patrons for donations for complicated surgeries which purportedly cannot be conducted or funded in Israel. Some of this is bogus, but some has a grain of truth.
Clearly, Israel is incapable to provide adequate health for its own residents.
The acting (deputy) minister of health, has no managerial credentials, no medical training but without doubt he is a venerable scholar of the Tora, and a party apparatchik very much preoccupied with coalition politics.
Why then does Israel insist and serve its enemies? Do the Jews want to impress the Goyim at any price. Do they think this works? They still get a bad press in Europe.
This is a matter of policy, not of legal jurisprudence. What business does the High Court in Israel have to adjudicate this issue. These Arabs from Gaza don’t even live in Israel. They have no legal standing before Israeli courts whatsoever.
And by the why who pays for treating these hash brothers in Israeli hospitals. The EU, the UN or perhaps Israel itself?
Four human rights groups representing the women said the government was using them and others seeking care unavailable in Gaza as “bargaining chips.”
Perhaps the four so-called Human Rights groups should assist by getting Hamas to give back the two IDF soldiers remains and release the Israeli civilians rather than just demanding accusing Israel of doing something wrong. Israel wants their people back.
Make a deal perhaps, strike a bargain and stop expecting everything for nothing just to spite Israel.
Terrorist supporters masquerading as Human Rights Organisations expose their hypocrisy so often these days.