{"id":182035,"date":"2016-01-13T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/13\/this-is-some-seriously-sick-sh\/"},"modified":"2016-01-13T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T00:16:00","slug":"this-is-some-seriously-sick-sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/13\/this-is-some-seriously-sick-sh\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Some Seriously Sick Sh%$"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A left wing Israeli activist, Ezra Nawi, was <a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/news\/breaking-news\/329161\/israeli-activist-says-he-helps-kill-palestinians-who-sell-land-to-jews\/\">caught on tape boasting that he turned information about Arabs who were looking to sell land to Jews over to the Palestinian security services<\/a>, and boasted that these people were tortured and killed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A prominent Israeli campaigner for Palestinian rights was recorded saying that he helps Palestinian authorities find and kill Palestinians who sell land to Jews.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The recording was aired Thursday by the television program Uvda of Israel\u2019s Channel 2. In it, Ezra Nawi, a Jewish far-left activist from the Ta\u2019ayush group, is heard speaking about four Palestinian real-estate sellers, whom Nawi said mistook him for a Jew interested in buying their property.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cStraight away I give their pictures and phone numbers to the Preventive Security Force,\u201d Nawi is heard saying in reference to the Palestinian Authority\u2019s counterintelligence arm. \u201cThe Palestinian Authority catches them and kills them. But before it kills them, they get beat up a lot.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">In the Palestinian Authority, the penal code reserves capital punishment for anyone convicted of selling land to Jews. This law, which Palestinian officials defended as designed to prevent takeovers by settlers, has not been implemented in Palestinian courts, where sellers of land to Jews are usually sentenced to several years in prison. However, in recent years several Palestinian have been murdered for selling land. Their murders have remained unsolved.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He has since been arrested on evidence that he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishpress.com\/news\/new-trouble-for-activist-nawi-more-ngo-checks-possible-conspiracy-to-commit-murder\/2016\/01\/12\/\">attempting to lure an Israeli Arab realtor to a village near Hebrone where he would be taken into custody by PA state security forces<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Many in Israel\u2019s left have been trying to disassociate themselves from Ezra Nawi, the activist who was secretly taped on a Channel 2 news program Uvda bragging about sending Arab land brokers to certain torture if not death in the hands of the Palestinian Authority\u2019s Preventive Security service (selling land to Jews is an act of treason under PA law). Those who defended him quickly became the new pariahs of Israel\u2019s mass and social media. Then came a follow-up report Monday night showing Nawi was on the payroll of Breaking the Silence and Rabbis for Human Rights.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Meanwhile, right-wing journalist Shai Glick, who filed a police complaint regarding Ezra Nawi\u2019s activities, reported a conversation with an investigating police officer who told him the Arab land broker Nawi was conspiring to hand over to the PA is an Israeli citizen. Nawi and several other activists were attempting to invite this Israeli citizen to the Arab village of Yatta, south of Hebron, where PA police would be waiting to arrest him.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">This last revelation probably explains why Nawi hightailed it to Ben Gurion International, to catch a flight to anywhere else, when police caught him and took him in for questioning. It\u2019s starting to sound like conspiracy to commit murder, which Israel frowns on, regardless of one\u2019s political conviction.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nawi&#8217;s lawyer is claiming that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/far-left-activist-ezra-nawi-wasnt-fleeing-says-attorney\/\">he was leaving the country to visit friends in Europe<\/a>,&nbsp; and that he had checked with law enforcement before booking the flight, and given the sh%$ storm that has blown up around him, I could see he wants to get out.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that Ezra Nawi he feels passionately about Palestinians and their demands for a homeland, but this is a classic case for quoting Freidrich Nietsche, <b><span style=\"font-size: 110%; font-variant: small-caps;\">&#8220;If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.&#8221;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you want to lead a consistently ethical life, it&#8217;s generally a good idea to avoid behavior that might invoke a Nietsche quote.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty much an indicator that you have lost your way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A left wing Israeli activist, Ezra Nawi, was caught on tape boasting that he turned information about Arabs who were looking to sell land to Jews over to the Palestinian security services, and boasted that these people were tortured and killed: A prominent Israeli campaigner for Palestinian rights was recorded saying that he helps Palestinian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,969,1051,1159,972,986,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-israel","category-justice","category-middle-east","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}