BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

For more details of the Egged case, visit:
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemN
o=259128
As for Judge Azar's treatment of the PLO lawyer Yosef
Arnon:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=27
5214&contrassID=2&subContrassID=14&sbSubContrassID=
0&listSrc=Y
"Attorney Jamal Abu Toameh, an Arab citizen of Israel, has
been replaced by Yossi Arnon, a Jewish lawyer. "We
realized that in an Israeli court you have to be a Jew to
accomplish anything," says Farih Abu Madin. Last week,
Arnon made his debut as the PA's lawyer in the Tel Aviv
District Court, in a hearing on the Egged suit.”
"'This is not a terrorist case, but a civil case involving a
damage suit,' he said. Cross-examining the director of the
bus company's financial division, Arnon focused on the
question of whether Egged's profits had shrunk not because
of the terrorist attacks but because it lost its monopoly status
as an intercity carrier.
'"However, the judge, Dr. Adi Azar, refused to accept Arnon's
approach. "Even though this is a civil suit," he wrote in an
interim decision, "it deals in its entirety with a lengthy chain of
acts of terrorism and atrocity that are exceptional even by
international criteria, which unfortunately occurred in the
recent past in Israel ... It cannot be treated as a routine,
regular breach of contract suit, as though we were dealing
with a cupboard that someone ordered but was not
delivered, or a check not honored by a bank.'"
In another suit against the PLO, Judge Azar upheld his
position, and his integrity:
"In a decision of January 2003 to place a lien on NIS 4
million in favor of Yosef Azouz, who was wounded in the
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