Israeli Minister of Justice Assaults Woman
by Ian Mosley
Israeli Minister of Justice Haim Ramon (Minister of JUSTICE, now!) has been indicted by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on charges of “indecently assaulting” a female employee in his office, on the very day when the Israeli attack on Lebanon was launched, and when the Minister of Justice, one would expect, would have a lot better things to think about with his country going to war than planting a wet sloppy kiss on an unwilling 18 year old. Of course, under Israeli law, the indictment has to be reviewed and approved by none other than–the Minister of Justice!
A recent news article reports “Police said Tuesday that there is sufficient evidence to indict Justice Minister Haim Ramon for sexual harassment of a government worker last month… the evidence allegedly indicates that Ramon forcibly kissed the woman employee at her leaving party in the Kiriya, the Defense Ministry compound in Tel Aviv. According to the sources, the interrogation against Ramon has been completed. Last week, police organized a meeting between the minister and the complainant via videoconference, as the woman had already left for a trip in Central America and refused to return to Israel for interrogation. Ramon’s interrogators speculated last week that an indictment may be served against the minister. The complainant’s testimony struck detectives as reliable and consistent and they could not identify ulterior motives for her decision to make such serious accusations against Ramon.”
Perhaps Mr. Ramon should have joined his distant cousins who went into the American movie industry. He could have assigned starring roles in movies dependent upon time spent by young starlets on the “casting couch.” A lecherous old man is not suited for the role of minister of justice. Then again, the nation of Israel just invaded two neighboring states based on relatively minor incidents. The nation of Israel failed to prosecute Israelis who murdered American and British peace protestors. The nation of Israel publicly condoned torture for many years. And the ministry of justice rubber-stamped or ignored the massive land grab being made possible by their Apartheid Wall which has separated many West Bank Arabs from their farms and orchards.
Perhaps the Attorney General Mazuz is being a little bit hasty in his judgment. Maybe a lecherous old man is the perfect minister of justice for the nation of Israel.