The world media continues to echo the deceptive Hamas propaganda regarding the famine in Gaza while Leftist Israeli media add their vociferous backing. In its weekend edition, the British Daily Mirror published front page photos of Karim Eli Fua Abut Maamar, a three-year-old boy from the Strip, all skin and bones, with a swollen belly, echoing the Hamas claim that his condition is a result of the hunger in Gaza. And this is from a respectable and central newspaper which is expected to thoroughly examine the veracity of this claim before printing it. Additionally, many other media forms have fallen into the trap and have likewise printed that one, among other photos, of starving children, which have also been proven to be Hamas 'fake news'.
Apparently, those media gloat in pleasure to serve the Hamas' wily purposes in order to join the worldwide wave of anti-Semitism. The falsity of this story was already previously disqualified by government medical documents from before the war testifying that the child in question was suffering a genetic disorder termed as the 'Panconi Syndrome'. This genetic condition was the cause of the child's medical condition, from which other members of the family also suffered. In the published photo, the well-fed brother who was holding the sick baby was cropped out.
This exposure simply exemplifies similar attempts of the Hamas terrorist organization to spread false narratives as part of their misleading propaganda campaign. In this case, the terrorist organization exploited the sick child's medical condition in order to promote their particular marketing messages.
In such manner does Hamas continue to disseminate its particular brand of disinformation abroad against Israel, mobilizing the help of media throughout the world, currying enthusiastic support of Israeli Leftists and certain media to the point that it appears that Israel is rendered practically helpless against the dishonest propaganda which is endangering the lives of Israelis living in countries throughout the world.
The Rule of Lawlessness
The government Judicial Advisor does not even have a smattering of shame when she stands up before all, explaining that in her eyes, one must persecute the chareidim to the very end, to whittle down every budget allocation being given them, to examine every elementary single citizen's right they are privy to, while Israeli Arabs continue to receive unlimited budgets. She surely has her legal explanations galore.
In her opinion, Israeli Arabs are exempt from military service which is why they cannot be denied budgets for not serving in the army, while the chareidi public is obligated to serve in the army. Therefore, anyone who does not do so is termed a defector. This disgusting statement was said in relation to the plea which was submitted to halt all of the budgets of Arab students in institutions of higher education, as these were, lehavdil, halted regarding the budgets for Torah students.
Does the law really absolve Arabs from military service?
In the opinion of the government legal advisor and her ilk, there is no outright legal release of Arabs from military duty. IDF directives do not require Arabs to serve in the army, but there is no legal basis for this condition. This is the army's policy in reality, allowing them to volunteer if they so wish.
The law of security service obligates the drafting of the body of Israeli citizenship, but the army reserves for itself the consideration regarding the non-mobilization of segments of the population, including the Israeli Arab sector. Incidentally, the army has permitted in the past the deferment of Torah students, so that for over many years, all bills presented to the High Court were shunted aside, for the selfsame right of the army to decide whom it wished to accept in its ranks and whom it absolves from the draft or defers it therefrom. The petitions which sought to impose the army to draft Torah students by force were disqualified by the High Court due to the fact that they had 'no standing' on the subject.
All was alright until Aharon Barak came along, who changed the rules, allowed the Jewish anti-Semites to petition against the army and abolished the army's right to decide who should be drafted and who not. He did not quite abolish this absolutely, only partially. The army's right to absolve Torah students was eliminated, while its right to absolves Arab from army service remained intact.
The question is: why? According to which clause did the High Court rule as they did?
