Officer Shahar Mizrachi is the latest victim of the leftist assault on Israel via the court system. Officer Mizrachi is a hero. He should have been awarded a medal for stopping a violent car thief. Instead, a politicized court and a politicized judge are sending him to prison for 15 months. There he will sit among the common criminals, including perhaps some he himself apprehended. They will make his life a living hell.

Mizrachi’s crime?  He did his job!

In July 2006, Officer Mizrachi saw a car thief stealing a car in Pardes Hana. It turns out though that the thief was an Arab from nearby Baqa al-Garbiya, one Mahmoud Ganaim. Officer Mizrachi shot the thief, who died from the wound. The thief, Ganaim, tried to stab Mizrachi with a screwdriver before the cop shot him.

But in post-survivalist Israel the court system seems to believe that Arabs should not be expected to obey the law and Jews should never be permitted to stop them from committing crimes. You may recall the farmer from the Negev, Shai Dromi, who shot at three Bedouin thieves trying to steal his sheep and killed one. He was harassed and indicted by the Attorney General and convicted of manslaughter, although recently cleared on appeal.

Israel’s Attorney General has for decades been a leftist partisan biased judicial activist.

The judge in the Mizrachi case was Petach Tikvah District Court Judge Menachem Finkelstein. He convicted Mizrachi of manslaughter for doing his job and stopping the thief. In his verdict, the judge second guesses Mizrachi and insists the cop could have stopped the thief without killing him, like by shooting at the car tires. Never mind that shooting the tires of a car belonging to a citizen is also a crime. The judge also insists Mizrachi could have shot the thief in a leg. There is no evidence that the judge has any experience as a sharpshooter.

The family of the Arab thief denounced the court for giving the heroic cop a sentence they thought was too light. They screamed that if the thief had been a Jew, the cop would have been convicted with a tougher sentence. Actually, in that case the cop would not have been indicted at all. For the record, if the thief had been a Jew shot in the act, I would still insist that Mizrachi is a hero and deserves a medal. Israel is today under the hegemony of a leftist ideology that holds that Arabs should not be expected to obey the law since they are so “oppressed.”

Israel has a system of clemency for the convicted, the President issues clemency writs, and the current President, Shimon Peres, is the last person to pardon a heroic Jewish cop who did his duty, although Peres would have been the first to pardon the thief if he had been convicted and sent to prison. And also will pardon Ehud Olmert. But not Moshe Katsav. Katsav had the nerve to beat Peres in an earlier Knesset vote to become president.

There is not much one can do about the judge, Menachem Finkelstein. It is all but impossible to dismiss a judge in Israel.

Nevertheless, if you would like to try, write the Minister of Justice, Yaakov Ne’eman, at Israel’s Ministry of Justice, and tell him what you think.

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