The Daily added that judges in two Israeli courts rejected prosecutors' requests to remand the suspect, accused of serious crimes, to keep him in custody for the duration of judicial proceedings against him.
A few days prior, Israeli Judge Moshe Drori refused to impose restrictions on Hebron colonizer Noam Federman, and even castigated Israeli unit who had evicted the Federman family from the site they had broken into numerous times.
Two years ago, Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz acknowledged that the state of law enforcement in the OPT is 'very inferior.' His predecessor Elyakim Rubinstein branded this phenomenon as 'sub-law enforcement on Israelis who reside in the OPT,' Haaretz reported.
According to the Paper, similar statements were found in a report commissioned by a panel headed by Yehudit Karp, who was Israeli Deputy Attorney General nearly 25 years ago. The committee recommended immediate action in order to prevent further harm to the rule of law. Human rights organization studies revealed that the Israeli law enforcement authorities' attitude toward colonizers violence continues to be lax.
The Israeli Authorities' leniency toward the colonizers has turned into one of the Israeli Occupation's most twisted phenomena. Colonizers who shot to death young stone-throwing Palestinians defending their lives, were given community service and meager fines.
The approach toward crimes committed by Israelis against Palestinians brings to mind the attitude toward sexual harassment that used to typify the Israeli legal system and Israeli society, the Paper commented.
This distortion exists thanks to emergency laws that allow colonizers to be tried in Israeli courts under the purview of Israeli criminal law. In contrast, Palestinian citizens are tried in military tribunals that use a different set of laws and punishments.
As such, a colonizer may be released on bail and given probation for a crime that would land a Palestinian in custody until the end of legal proceedings, followed by a long prison sentence.
