EU funding of legal proceedings against IDF soldiers-a rejoinder

By Dogan Akman

I am not a wise politician or statesman but I do know a few things about countries such as France  and those of the EU which consistently seek to bring  Israel’s  good name into international  ill-repute so as to promote her condemnation by the United Nations.

They do so, in part, by  financing Israeli ONGs, headed or  staffed by Israeli would-be politicians  who have been consistently rejected by the Israeli electorate and  by foreign organisations hostile to Israel’s current foreign and domestic policies.

The EU’s recent decision to fund legal proceedings against IDF soldiers is yet another  who have been consistently dastardly illustration.

That this type of repugnant behaviour pattern breaches  the fundamental moral rule that prohibits one to do to another that which one would not like to be done to him  or her to the lofty principles of comity of nations and of non-interference in the domestic affairs of another member nation of the U.N., is of no concern to them.

I am wondering whether for Israel, the time has finally come as a matter of national self-respect and pride to say “enough is enough”, and

First, remind these countries that Israel

1. is not one of their Jewish ghettos with and in which they can do whatever they wish, as they used to do;
2. malicious Inquisitions, are a thing of the past.

Second, to forbid forthwith, the direct, indirect or  any other kind of illicit method of foreign funding of Israeli NGOs, by foreign governments, institutions of any kind including by entities whose principal place of business is located abroad or  established in Israel  one of whose purposes  is to circumvent the prohibition.

Fourth,

1. to expel forthwith from Israel and the territories under its control, all foreign NGOs and their foreign personnel,   and
2. to forbid the entry to Israel and to the territories under her control, of foreign NGOs and their foreign as well as any  foreign personnel associated with or employed by a foreign government or any other entity both abroad and in Israel,

whose sole, principal or ultimate purpose is to embarrass or attack the Israeli government as a whole or its various components, her national institutions such as the judicial system and the Courts and administrative tribunals, the IDF and their respective members or Israeli citizens.

Dogan Akman was born and schooled in Istanbul, Turkey. Upon his graduation, he immigrated to Canada with his family. In Canada, he taught university in sociology-criminology and social welfare policy.  After a stint as a Judge of the Provincial Court (criminal and family divisions) of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, he joined the Federal Department of Justice working first as a Crown prosecutor, and then switching to civil litigation and specialising in aboriginal law.