http://fresnozionism.org/2013/02/why-some-israelis-welcome-rocket-attacks/ A pro-Israel voice from California's Central Valley Sun, 19 May 2013 22:43:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://fresnozionism.org/2013/02/why-some-israelis-welcome-rocket-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-9037 Shalom Freedman Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:52:03 +0000 http://fresnozionism.org/?p=11190#comment-9037 I don’t think it is possible to judge or measure individuals on the basis of their feelings. It is actions that count. We all have many non- admirable feelings and I would not be surprised if many perhaps even most Arabs in Israelis have toward the Jewish state thoughts of destruction. But it is the actions that should be observed and judged. Of course there too is an area of ‘performative utterances’ in which the speech act itself becomes an action which can be judged and possibly condemned.
All this is preliminary to saying that Arabs in Israel have the free speech right to attack and condemn the state. They do it every day and the Knesset is full of this.
But once that speech leads to seditious action another situation begins.
I would consider any abusive attack on soldiers of Israel while they are on duty to be a seditious action. I do not know the Law here but it seems to me that such an action should be an offense punishable by imprisonment.

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